Multi-mode project payment scheduling problems with bonus-penalty structure

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1191-1207

  He, Zhengwen ^a   Xu, Yu ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bonus penalty structure; Heuristic; Optimization model; Payment scheduling; Project management

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PAYMENT SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 40849126623     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.07.053     Document Type: Article

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