Applying harmony search to the bulky waste recycling network design problem

WCE 2010 - World Congress on Engineering 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2280-2285

  Chang, Mei Shiang ^a   Yang, Wei Chih ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bulky waste recovery; Harmony search; Stochastic network design problem

Indexed keywords

HARMONY SEARCH; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; NP-HARD; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PARAMETER ANALYSIS; SEARCH-BASED ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC NETWORK DESIGN; WASTE RECOVERIES; WASTE RECYCLING;

DESIGN; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 79959849059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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