Dynamic modeling and control of supply chain systems: A review

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3530-3561

  Sarimveis, Haralambos ^a   Patrinos, Panagiotis ^a   Tarantilis, Chris D ^b   Kiranoudis, Chris T ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Control; Dynamic modeling; Dynamic programming; Model predictive control; Review; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DYNAMIC MODELS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

NEURODYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGERS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 41149165852     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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