An evolutionary approach for product line adaptation

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 5932-5944

  Chen, Songlin ^a   Wu, Shuli ^a   Zhang, Xiaojin ^a   Dai, Hongyan ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

adaptation; pricing; product line

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MANUFACTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACTIVITY BASED COSTING; ADAPTATION; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING; MIXED INTEGER NON-LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; OPTIMISATION PROCEDURES; PRODUCT-LINES;

COSTS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84906951397     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.893065     Document Type: Article

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