Hidden Convexity in a Class of Optimization Problems with Bilinear Terms

The authors thank Frans de Ruiter (ASML, Wageningen University & Research) for his comments on a previous version of this paper; the company Hoogwegt (Arnhem, Netherlands), milk supplier for the WFP, for providing practical information on the case study for the World Food Programme; and Arkadi Nemirovskii (Georgia Institute of Technology) for his help with Theorem 2. The authors thank the reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions that helped improve this manuscript. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement No 101036388. Furthermore, this research was part of the Sector Plan Engineering II, funded by the Dutch ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (OCW).