Scheduling of pipeless batch plants using constraint satisfaction techniques

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2-7, 2000, Pages 377-383

  Huang, W ^a   Chung, P W H ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constraint satisfaction technique; Pipeless batch plants; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; SEARCH ENGINES;

BATCH PROCESSING SCHEDULER; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION TECHNIQUE; PIPELESS BATCH PLANTS;

CHEMICAL PLANTS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROCESS CONTROL; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0034660721     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(00)00483-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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