Equipment scheduling at mail processing and distribution centers

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-187

  Zhang, Xinhui ^a   Bard, Jonathan F ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MAIL HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; POSTAL SERVICES;

EQUIPMENT SCHEDULING; MAIL PROCESSING; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 11844300335     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170590885657     Document Type: Article

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