Simulation-based multi-objective optimization of a real-world scheduling problem

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1757-1764

  Persson, Anna ^a   Grimm, Henrik ^a   Ng, Amos ^a   Lezama, Thomas ^a   Ekberg, Jonas ^b   Falk, Stephan ^b   Stablum, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Postal Services   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

COMPUTATIONALLY EXPENSIVE; DECISION MAKER (DM); MULTI OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION (MOP); MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; OPTIMIZATION PROCESSES; REAL WORLD; SCHEDULING PROBLEMS; SIMULATION MODELLING; SIMULATION-BASED; SIMULATION-BASED OPTIMIZATIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 46149121777     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2006.322952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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