Concrete plant operations optimization using combined simulation and genetic algorithms

Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2004, Pages 4204-4209

  Cao, Ming ^a   Lu, Ming ^b   Zhang, Jian Ping ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Discrete Event Simulation; Genetic Algorithm; Ready Mixed Concrete; Stochastic Optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISCREET-EVENT SIMULATION; READY MIXED CONCRETE (RMC); RESOURCE PLANNING; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION;

CONCRETES;

EID: 6344256703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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