A directed acyclic graph representation of routing manufacturing flexibility

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 78-93

  Borenstein, Denis ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Flexible manufacturing systems; Graph modelling; Routing flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041929972     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(99)00324-0     Document Type: Article

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