Robust optimization and stochastic programming approaches for medium-term production scheduling of a large-scale steelmaking continuous casting process under demand uncertainty

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 165-185

  Ye, Yun ^a   Li, Jie ^b,c   Li, Zukui ^b   Tang, Qiuhua ^a   Xiao, Xin ^c   Floudas, Christodoulos A ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous casting; Demand uncertainty; Robust optimization; Scheduling; Steelmaking; Two stage stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS CASTING; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; STEELMAKING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

CONTINUOUS CASTING PROCESS; DEMAND UNCERTAINTY; EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS; IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELING; PRODUCTION SCHEDULING; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84901242416     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2014.02.028     Document Type: Article

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