Design of distributed layouts

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-318

  Lahmar, Maher ^a   Benjaafar, Saif ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DESIGN; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED LAYOUT; PROBABILITY TRANSITION MATRIX; PRODUCT DEMAND; PRODUCT MIX;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 15744368785     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170590517015     Document Type: Article

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