Unidirectional Loop Network Layout Problem in Automated Manufacturing Systems

DOI10.1287/opre.40.3.533zbMath0763.90049OpenAlexW2014136132MaRDI QIDQ4017085

Michael W. Kim, Panagiotis Kouvels

Publication date: 16 January 1993

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.40.3.533

zbMATH Keywords

NP-completeautomated manufacturingworst case behaviordesign of unidirectional loop network layoutsoptimal branch-and-bound procedure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35) Abstract computational complexity for mathematical programming problems (90C60) Production models (90B30) Computational methods for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-08)

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