Model-based predictive control for generalized production planning problems

Computers in Industry

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-210

  Tzafestas, Spyros ^a   Kapsiotis, George ^a   Kyriannakis, Efthimios ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Advertisement process; Decision under uncertainty; Inventory systems; Model based predictive control; Production planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ADVERTISEMENT PROCESS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION PLANNING;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031275461     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-3615(97)00055-9     Document Type: Article

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