An improvement of a beam search method for warehouse storage allocation planning problems minimizing the number of operations and the aggregated number of products for each customer

IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1029-1035

  Nishi, Tatsushi ^a   Konishi, Masami ^a   Yamamoto, Shinichiro ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STNet Incorporated   (Japan)

Author keywords

beam search; heuristic function; mixed integer linear programming problem; optimization; storage allocation problem; warehouse management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951121777     PISSN: 03854221     EISSN: 13488155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejeiss.124.1029     Document Type: Article

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