Analysis of the single-vehicle cyclic inventory routing problem

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2040-2049

  Aghezzaf, El Houssaine ^a   Zhong, Yiqing ^a   Raa, Birger ^a   Mateo, Manel ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

exact algorithms; inventory routing; nonlinear mixed integer programming

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC INVENTORY; EXACT ALGORITHMS; INVENTORY ROUTING; LOGISTICAL PROBLEMS; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMS; NON-LINEAR MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL VALUES; STOCK OUTS; TEST PROBLEM;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PROFITABILITY;

SALES;

EID: 84867010309     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2011.564321     Document Type: Article

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