A paradigm for the scheduling of a continuous walking beam reheat furnace using a modified genetic algorithm

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 607-614

  Broughton, Jonathan S ^a   Mahfouf, Mahdi ^b   Linkens, Derek A ^b  

^a SWINDEN TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Optimization; Reheat furnace; Scheduling; Simulation; Time delay

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING; STEEL; TIME DELAY;

CONTINUOUS WALKING BEAM; REHEAT FURNACE;

HEATING FURNACES;

EID: 34249849506     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: 15322475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10426910701323243     Document Type: Article

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