Integrated facilities design using a contour distance metric

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 337-344

  Norman, B A ^a   Arapoglu, R A ^a   Smith, A E ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATERIALS HANDLING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

CONTOUR DISTANCE METRICS; INTEGRATED FACILITIES DESIGN;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0035311628     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007646707605     Document Type: Article

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