Mixed integer linear programming in process scheduling: Modeling, algorithms, and applications

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 131-162

  Floudas, Christodoulos A ^a   Lin, Xiaoxia ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Chemical process scheduling; Continuous time model; Discrete time model; Mixed integer linear programming (MILP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144491255     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-005-3446-x     Document Type: Article

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