Designing a closed-loop supply chain with stochastic product returns: A Genetic Algorithm approach

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-418

  Zhou, Gengui ^a   Min, Hokey ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A closed loop supply chain; GA; Genetic Algorithms; Stochastic network design

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051655335     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2011.041863     Document Type: Article

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