An investigation of mating and population maintenance strategies in hybrid genetic heuristics for product line designs

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 639-659

  Balakrishnan, P V ^a   Gupta, Rakesh ^b   Jacob, Varghese S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribute importance; Conjoint analysis; Decision support; Dynamic programming; Genetic algorithms; Hybrid heuristics; Malthusian; Marketing

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MARKETING; POPULATION STATISTICS; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; PRODUCT DESIGN; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ATTRIBUTE IMPORTANCE; CONJOINT ANALYSIS; HYBRID HEURISTICS; MALTHUSIAN;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 23344453366     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2004.07.011     Document Type: Article

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