A flexible decision support system for steel hot rolling mill scheduling

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 2 SPEC., 2003, Pages 307-321

  Cowling, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Heuristics; Implementation; Modelling; Scheduling; Steel

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HOT ROLLING MILLS; SCHEDULING; STEEL;

FLEXIBLE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038789162     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(03)00038-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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