Intelligent search methods for nonlinear goal programming problems

INFOR

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 79-92

  Kuriger, Glenn ^a   Ravi Ravindran, A ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal programming; Nonlinear goal programming; Search methods

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MARKETING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

GOAL PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR GOAL PROGRAMMING; PARTITIONING PATTERN SEARCH (PPS); SEARCH METHODS;

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 23744432326     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03155986.2005.11732718     Document Type: Article

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