An optimization method for solving mixed discrete-continuous programming problems

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1481-1491

  Srivastava, Vijaya K ^a   Fahim, Atef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REDUNDANCY;

BOUNDARY TRACKING; DISCRETE-CONTINUOUS PROGRAMMING; LITERATURE; SERIES-PARALLEL STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34249113507     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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