eprintid: 4893 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/48/93 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:07:36 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:38 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:07:36 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Bialon, P.M. creators_id: 7505 title: Optimization-Based Analysis of a Simplified Ozone Model ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_env internal_subjects: iis_met internal_subjects: iis_mod divisions: prog_mda divisions: prog_ysp abstract: This paper describes the development of a software optimization tool that aims at finding the optimal strategy for decreasing the ozone concentration in Europe. A simplified ozone model has been used in the research. This model describes the relations between reductions of certain industry pollutants and the resulting ozone concentration abatement, as well as the costs associated with given emission reductions. The task of finding the most cost-effective strategy results in a difficult nonlinear problem comprising thousands of variables and constraints. Moreover, other difficulties can arise, such as issues connected with problem conditioning and solution sensitivity to parameter changes. These potential difficulties lead to the question of software robustness. It was decided to apply three different optimization algorithms in order to ensure that the tool would be able to solve different optimization problems generated during different scenario analyses. The task of joining three different nonlinear solvers (CFSQP, Conopt, and MINOS) with completely different interfaces also turned out to be interesting from the software-engineering point of view. The object-oriented programming technique provided a simple way to divide the software parts into those that were common to all three solvers and those that were solver-specific. The model and the methodological and engineering difficulties in its analysis are summarized in this paper. The paper also contains a description of the software tool developed, as well as conclusions and further suggestions motivated by the first results. date: 1996-11 date_type: published publisher: WP-96-134 iiasapubid: WP-96-134 price: 10 creators_browse_id: 1150 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria pages: 31 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Bialon, P.M. (1996). Optimization-Based Analysis of a Simplified Ozone Model. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-96-134 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4893/1/WP-96-134.pdf