Toward a heuristic optimum design of rolling schedules for tandem cold rolling mills

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 397-406

  Wang, D D ^a   Tieu, A K ^a   De Boer, F G ^a   Ma, B ^a   Yuen, W Y D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD ROLLING MILLS; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0033706812     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-1976(00)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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