An improved heuristic for a batch production system under linearly increasing time-varying demand

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-106

  Goyal, S K ^a   Giri, B C ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BATCH PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; FINITE TIME HORIZON; FINITE-PLANNING HORIZON; OPTIMAL REPLENISHMENT;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 3242732044     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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