An optimisation model and its effective beam search heuristics for floor-storage warehousing systems

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1947-1966

  Nishi, T ^a   Konishi, M ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam search; Floor storage systems; Integer programming problems; Optimisation; Storage allocation; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

BEAM SEARCH; INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; OPTIMISATIONS; STORAGE ALLOCATION; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FLOORS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEELMAKING; WAREHOUSES;

BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD;

EID: 77951131728     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540802603767     Document Type: Article

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