Minimax regret strategies for greenhouse gas abatement: Methodology and application

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 219-230

  Loulou, Richard ^a   Kanudia, Amit ^a  

^a GERAD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MINIMAX REGRET FORMULATION; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 0033361405     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6377(99)00049-8     Document Type: Article

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