The effects of neighborhood storage size on dynamic: Programming solutions

Forest Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 387-395

  Pelkki, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical methods; Optimization aggregation

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EID: 0030827693     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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