Biorefinery supply chain network design under competitive feedstock markets: An agent-based simulation and optimization approach

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 39, 2014, Pages 15111-15126

  Singh, Akansha ^a   Chu, Yunfei ^a   You, Fengqi ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BIOCONVERSION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEEDSTOCKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; REFINING; SUPPLY CHAINS;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; BLACK-BOX FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAM; MIXED INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAM; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN; SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK; SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK DESIGN;

COSTS;

EID: 84907546712     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie5020519     Document Type: Article

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