Vehicle scheduling on a tree with release and handling times

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 69, Issue , 1997, Pages 193-207

  Karuno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nagamochi, Hiroshi ^b   Ibaraki, Toshihide ^b  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Approximate algorithm; NP hard; Tree shaped network; Vehicle scheduling; Worst case analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031539101     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018928911513     Document Type: Article

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