A comprehensive constraint programming approach for the rolling horizon-based scheduling of automated wet-etch stations

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 189-205

  Novas, Juan M ^a   Henning, Gabriela P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Automated wet etch station; Constraint programming; Multiproduct batch plants; Resource constrained scheduling; Semiconductor manufacturing systems

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT-PROGRAMMING; MULTI-PRODUCT BATCH PLANTS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINED SCHEDULING; SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; WET-ETCH;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84861578980     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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