Managing uncertainty in a serial production line

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 382-392

  Denardo, Eric V ^a   Lee, Thomas Y S ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROCESS CONTROL; SCHEDULING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

REWORK PROBABILITY; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINE;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0030092557     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.2.382     Document Type: Article

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