Effective selection and allocation of material handling equipment for stochastic production material demand problems using genetic algorithm

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 12497-12505

  Poon, T C ^a   Choy, K L ^a   Cheng, C K ^a   Lao, S I ^a   Lam, H Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

GA; RFID; Stochastic production demand problem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; GA; MAKESPAN; MANUFACTURING COMPANIES; MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENTS; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; PICKUP AND DELIVERY; PRODUCTION SHOPS; RFID; RFID TECHNOLOGY; STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION; WAITING-TIME;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WAREHOUSES;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 79957999390     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.033     Document Type: Article

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