Partner selection with a due date constraint in virtual enterprises

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1353-1365

  Zeng, Zhi Bin ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Zhu, Wenxing ^b  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Branch Bound; Nonlinear integer programming; Partner selection; Virtual enterprise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BRANCH & BOUND; NONLINEAR INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PARTNER SELECTION; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33645841045     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2005.08.022     Document Type: Article

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