The investigation of lead-time buffering under uncertainty using simulation and cost optimization

Lean Construction: A New Paradigm for Managing Capital Projects - 15th IGLC Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 580-589

  Srisuwanrat, Chachrist ^a   Ioannou, Photios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous resource utilization; Genetic algorithm; Idle time; Lead time buffering; Production work flow; Profit maximization; Simulation; STROBOSCOPE; The completed unit algorithm; The sequence step algorithm

Indexed keywords

IDLE TIME; LEADTIME; PRODUCTION WORK; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SIMULATION; STEP ALGORITHMS;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; PROFITABILITY; STROBOSCOPES;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84858058245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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