Customized solvers for the operational planning and scheduling of utility systems

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2-7, 2000, Pages 487-493

  Strouvalis, Alexandras M ^a   Heckl, Istvan ^b   Friedler, Ferenc ^b   Kokossis, Antonis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Hardware composites; Operational planning; Solver design; Utility networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BRANCH AND BOUND; CUSTOMIZED SOLVERS; HARDWARE COMPOSITES; OPERATIONAL PLANNING;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLANNING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034661357     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(00)00505-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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