Optimization of dairy cattle feed by nonlinear programming

2015 International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development, INDIACom 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1579-1584

  Saxena, Pratiksha ^a   Khanna, Neha ^a  

^a GAUTAM BUDDHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bi criteria decision making; Diet formulation; Livestock feed; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BI-CRITERIA; DAIRY CATTLES; DIFFERENT STAGES; LIVESTOCK FEED; MINIMUM COST; SECOND PHASE; STANDARD PROBLEMS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING MODEL;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84960875487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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