A portfolio theory approach to crop planning under environmental constraints

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 243-264

  Rǎdulescu, Marius ^a   Rǎdulescu, Constanta Zoie ^b   Zbǎganu, Gheorghiţǎ ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATICS   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Crop planning; Environmental level; Environmental risk; Mixed integer model; Multiobjective model; Portfolio theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655167707     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-011-0902-7     Document Type: Article

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