Simulated annealing for solving a manufacturing batch-sizing problem

International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-80

  Sarker, Ruhul ^a   Yao, Xin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heuristic; Inventory; Optimum Order Quantity; Periodic Delivery; Procurement; Simulated Annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 32144434135     PISSN: 10821910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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