A divide and conquer strategy for the scheduling of process plants subject to changeovers using continuous-time formulations

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 7939-7950

  Castro, Pedro M ^a   Barbosa Póvoa, Ana P ^b   Novais, Augusto Q ^a  

^a INETI   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS-TIME SCHEDULING; FORMULATION; LOWER COMPLEXITY;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 9244259691     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0342614     Document Type: Article

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