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Some of the problems previously described are binary. These problems appear in electrical systems, both in the planning and the operation stages. In the planning stage, the problems of transmission expansion planning and distribution planning are typical. Heuristic techniques usually solve these problems together with mixed-integer programming approximations [3]. Although mixed-integer problems are non-convex, they can be solved efficiently using methodologies such as the branch-and-bound algorithm. We present a brief introduction of this method in Chapter 4. Besides, several modules can be called from Python to solve these types of problems. We used Gurobi and Mosek for this task, although there are plenty of options available. Binary operation problems include unit commitment and phase balancing in power distribution networks.