Unidirectional Loop Network Layout Problem in Automated Manufacturing Systems

DOI10.1287/OPRE.40.3.533MaRDI QIDQ4017085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Panagiotis Kouvels, Michael Kim

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

automated manufacturingdesign of unidirectional loop network layoutsNP-completeoptimal branch-and-bound procedureworst case behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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