A milk collection problem with incompatibility constraints

Interfaces

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 130-143

  Caramia, Massimiliano ^a   Guerriero, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Food; Graphs; Heuristics; Industries; Networks; Transportation shipping

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951167278     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1090.0475     Document Type: Article

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