Decision support system for scheduling a Flexible Flow System: Incorporation of feature construction

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 78, Issue , 1998, Pages 219-234

  Piramuthu, Selwyn ^a   Raman, Narayan ^b   Shaw, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0032384259     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018902200919     Document Type: Article

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