Scheduling pickup and deliveries in a multiple-load discrete carrier environment

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1035-1047

  Sinriech, David ^a   Palni, Liron ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS;

FIRST ENCOUNTERED FIRST SERVED RULE; MULTIPLE LOAD CARRIERS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0032270853     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007555613124     Document Type: Article

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