Optimizing inventory policies in process networks under uncertainty

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 92, Issue , 2016, Pages 256-272

  Garcia Herreros, Pablo ^a   Agarwal, Anshul ^b   Wassick, John M ^b   Grossmann, Ignacio E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory planning; Inventory policies; Process network; Receding horizon; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; INVENTORY CONTROL; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INVENTORY PLANNING; INVENTORY POLICIES; MULTI-STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; PROCESS NETWORKS; RECEDING HORIZON; SEQUENTIAL IMPLEMENTATION; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING MODEL; TWO-STAGE APPROXIMATIONS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84976558349     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2016.05.014     Document Type: Article

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