On Bottleneck Product Rate Variation Problem with Batching

Subject Areas : Operation Research

Shree Khadka ¹ , Tanka Dhamala ²

1 - Central Department of Mathematics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
2 - Central Department of Mathematics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Received: 2015-04-30 Accepted : 2015-05-30 Published : 2013-07-01

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