A mixed integer programming model for modifying a block layout to facilitate smooth material flows

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3483, Issue IV, 2005, Pages 322-332

  Kim, Jae Gon ^a   Goetschalckx, Marc ^b  

^a SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODEL; MATERIAL FLOWS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 24944440009     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11424925_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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