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A Heuristic for Scheduling Problems Especially for Scheduling Farm Operations

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Part of the book series: Operations Research Proceedings ((ORP,volume 1987))

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To obtain a schedule for farm operations with techniques like linear programming or dynamic programming is a time-consuming task. It asks for a lot of computer-memory and therefore, only small problems can be solved. But, practice asks for better solvers which can be used for large problems.

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Wijngaard, P. (1988). A Heuristic for Scheduling Problems Especially for Scheduling Farm Operations. In: Schellhaas, H., van Beek, P., Isermann, H., Schmidt, R., Zijlstra, M. (eds) DGOR/NSOR. Operations Research Proceedings, vol 1987. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73778-7_171

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