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Data Engineering & Optimization

Data systems often degrade through cumulative complexity, evolving into an unmanageable state where business logic becomes distributed across numerous SQL scripts and scheduled jobs, creating what is termed the "SQL Jungle." Addressing operational complexity in modeling, researchers are employing piecewise linear approximations as a viable strategy to translate challenging nonlinear constrained optimization problems into formats compatible with established LP/MIP solvers such as Gurobi for practical computation.