A two-carousel storage location problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 527-539

  Hassini, Elkafi ^a   Vickson, Raymond G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carousel storage; Combinatorial optimization; Heuristic

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; ROTATION; STORAGE (MATERIALS);

CAROUSALS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

STORAGE;

EID: 0037375113     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(02)00022-9     Document Type: Article

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