Australian sugar mills optimise siding rosters to increase profitability

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 235-249

  Higgins, Andrew J ^a   Postma, Steve ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b M Sugar Co Operative Assoc Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Harvest planning; Heuristics; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043106472     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ANOR.0000019107.68291.36     Document Type: Article

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