R&d project selection and scheduling with a filtered beam search approach

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-176

  Coffin, Mark A ^a   Taylor, Bernard W ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SELECTION; SIMULATION;

ECONOMIC GOAL; OPTIMAL PORTFOLIO;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0030081775     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408179608966262     Document Type: Article

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