Harvest planning in the Brazilian sugar cane industry via mixed integer programming

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 374-384

  Jena, Sanjay Dominik ^a   Poggi, Marcus ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

OR in agriculture Sugar cane harvesting Mixed integer programming Valid inequalities

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MATRICES; HARVEST PLANNING; HEURISTIC SOLUTIONS; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONAL PLANNING; PLANNING HORIZONS; TACTICAL PLANNING; VALID INEQUALITY;

FILTRATION; HARVESTING; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

SUGAR CANE;

EID: 84878933934     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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