Choosing prices to optimally buck hardwood logs with multiple log-length demand restrictions

Forest Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 403-413

  Pickens, James B ^a   Throop, Scott A ^b   Frendewey, James O ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wildland Specialists Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardwoods; Hierarchical optimization; Optimal bucking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030809654     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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