A novel hybrid algorithm for scheduling steel-making continuous casting production

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2450-2461

  Atighehchian, Arezoo ^a   Bijari, Mehdi ^a   Tarkesh, Hamed ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Non linear optimization; Steel making continuous casting scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELL CULTURE; CONTINUOUS CASTING; FLOWCHARTING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; METAL CASTING; METAL CASTINGS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING; STEEL; STEELMAKING;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; CASTING PRODUCTION; HYBRID ALGORITHM (HA); HYBRID FLOW SHOPS; MIDDLE EAST; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; NUMERICA L RESULTS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; PERFORMANCE EFFICIENCY; SEARCH METHODS; SECOND PHASE; STEEL-MAKING-CONTINUOUS CASTING SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 58549106334     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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