Scheduling and constraint propagation

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 123, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 227-256

  Brucker, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branch and bound algorithm; Constraint propagation; Linear programming; Machine scheduling; Project scheduling resource constraints

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867925682     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-218X(01)00342-0     Document Type: Article

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