A case of rule-based heuristics for scheduling hot rolling seamless steel tube production

Expert Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 145-158

  Li, Jianxiang ^a   Li, Ling ^b   Tang, Lixin ^c,d   Wu, Huijiang ^c,d,e  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Shenyang Coll of Eng   (China)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Hot rolling seamless steel tube production; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HOT ROLLING; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING; STEEL; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BOTTLENECK SCHEDULING; RULE-BASED HEURISTIC APPROACH; SEAMLESS STEEL TUBE; TIANJIN PIPE CORPORATION (CO);

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 33744963420     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2006.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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