Production systems engineering

Production Systems Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-666

  Li, Jingshan ^a   Meerkov, Semyon M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75579-3     Document Type: Book

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