Integrating multi-product production and distribution in newspaper logistics

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1576-1588

  Russell, Robert ^a   Chiang, Wen Chyuan ^a   Zepeda, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b World Publishing Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Metaheuristic; Newspaper logistics; Open vehicle routing problem with time windows; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TABU SEARCH;

METAHEURISTICS; NEWSPAPER LOGISTICS; OPEN VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM; TIME WINDOWS;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 34748916432     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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