A chance-constrained approach to stochastic line balancing problem

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1098-1115

  Aǧpak, Kürşad ^a   Gökçen, Hadi ^b  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Production; U line balancing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHANCE CONSTRAINED APPROACH; STOCHASTIC LINE BALANCING PROBLEM; U-TYPE LINE BALANCING (ULB);

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847014539     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.04.042     Document Type: Article

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