Application of Distributed Computing to Batch Plant Design and Scheduling

AIChE Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1648-1661

  Subrahmanyam, Sriram ^a   Kudva, Gautham K ^a   Bassett, Matthew H ^a   Pekny, Joseph F ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

BATCH PLANT DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMS;

PROCESSING;

EID: 0030164381     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690420617     Document Type: Article

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