An objective-guided ortho-synapse hopfield network approach to machine grouping problems

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2773-2792

  Zolfaghari, S ^a   Liang, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EFFICIENCY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE;

MACHINE GROUPING;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031258773     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002075497194444     Document Type: Article

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