The curse of reality - Why process scheduling optimization problems are difficult in practice

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2-7, 2000, Pages 323-328

  Honkomp, S J ^a   Lombardo, S ^b   Rosen, O ^a   Pekny, J F ^c  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^b The Coca Cola Company   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenge problem; Industrial applications; Optimization; Process scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONNEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

INVENTORY CONSTRAINTS; MANAGEMENT POLICY; MANPOWER AVAILABILITY; PROCESS SCHEDULING; RESOURCE SHARING;

PROCESS CONTROL;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER; PROCESS CONTROL; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0034661146     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(00)00468-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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