Optimal production scheduling for the dairy industry

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 315-331

  Doganis, Philip ^a   Sarimveis, Haralambos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Mixed integer linear programming; Optimization; Packaging; Parallel machines; Scheduling; Yogurt

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749126259     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-007-0285-y     Document Type: Article

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