Improving computational capabilities for addressing volume constraints in forest harvest scheduling problems

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1246-1264

  Vielma, Juan Pablo ^a   Murray, Alan T ^b   Ryan, David M ^c   Weintraub, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Combinatorial optimization; Constraint branching; Elastic constraints; Forest planning

Indexed keywords

BRANCH AND BOUND; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; CONSTRAINT BRANCHING; ELASTIC CONSTRAINTS; FOREST PLANNING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 33749845984     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.09.016     Document Type: Article

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