A parameter-tuned genetic algorithm to optimize two-echelon continuous review inventory systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 11708-11714

  Pasandideh, Seyed Hamid Reza ^a   Niaki, Seyed Taghi Akhavan ^b   Tokhmehchi, Nafiseh ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Continuous review policy; Genetic algorithm; Meta heuristic algorithms; Multi echelon inventory; Nonlinear integer programming

Indexed keywords

BACKORDERS; CONTINUOUS REVIEW; CONTINUOUS-REVIEW INVENTORY SYSTEMS; INVENTORY INVESTMENT; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; MULTI-ECHELON INVENTORY; NONLINEAR-INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; ORDERING POLICIES; REPAIRABLE ITEMS; TWO-ECHELON INVENTORY;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79955582354     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.03.056     Document Type: Article

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