On the flexible demand assignment problems: Case of unmanned aerial vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 865-868

  Alidaee, Bahram ^a   Wang, Haibo ^b   Landram, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b Texas A and M International University   (United States)

^c WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible demand assignment (FDA) problem; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DEMAND-ASSIGNMENT; MULTI-RESOURCE GENERALIZED ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM; REAL PROBLEMS; SET-UP TIME; TEST EFFECTIVENESS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 80053649315     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2011.2159709     Document Type: Article

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