Decision support system for the batching problems of steelmaking and continuous-casting production

Omega

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 976-991

  Tang, Lixin ^a   Wang, Gongshu ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Batching; Decision support system; Heuristics; Modelling; Steelmaking and continuous casting production

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649106449     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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