A new constraint programming approach for optimising a coal rail system

DOI10.1007/S11590-016-1041-5MaRDI QIDQ523170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mahmoud Masoud, Erhan Kozan, Geoff Kent, Shi Qiang Liu

Publication date 20 April 2017

Published in Optimization Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-016-1041-5

zbMATH Keywords

constraint programmingtrain schedulingrail transportationcoal mining

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Nonlinear programming (90C30)

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