Tailoring a decomposition method to a large forest management scheduling problem in northern Ontario

INFOR

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-231

  Hauer, Grant K ^a   Hoganson, Howard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Forest management scheduling; Heuristics; Lagrangian relaxation; Spatial analysis; Timber supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004114638     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03155986.1996.11732305     Document Type: Article

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