An application of constraint programming to generating detailed operations schedules for steel manufacturing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4741 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 64-76

  Davenport, Andrew ^a   Kalagnanam, Jayant ^a   Reddy, Chandra ^a   Siegel, Stuart ^a   Hou, John ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM Taiwan Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; PRODUCTION; SCHEDULING;

DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DECOMPOSITION; SCHEDULING CONSTRAINTS; SETUP TIMES;

IRON AND STEEL PLANTS;

EID: 38149124786     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74970-7_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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