Addressing the operational challenges in the development, manufacture, and supply of advanced materials and performance products

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 157-169

  Wassick, John M ^a   Agarwal, Anshul ^a   Akiya, Naoko ^a   Ferrio, Jeff ^a   Bury, Scott ^a   You, Fengqi ^b  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crew scheduling; Discrete event simulation; Multi agent systems; Resource task network

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MATERIALS; BATCH PROCESS; COMMODITY CHEMICALS; CREW SCHEDULING; ENTERPRISE-WIDE OPTIMIZATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES; PROCESS RELIABILITY; PRODUCTION SCHEDULING; RESOURCE TASK NETWORK;

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869497256     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2012.06.041     Document Type: Article

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