Article ID: | iaor199865 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 453 |
End Page Number: | 472 |
Publication Date: | May 1997 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Smith J. MacGregor, Singh Ajay |
Keywords: | queues: applications, heuristics, programming: multiple criteria, programming: nonlinear |
The Buffer Allocation Problem (BAP) is a nonlinear, multi-objective one in integer variables and there exists no closed-form solution for the objective function. An efficient and effective search methodology is utilized to generate sub-optimal solutions to the problem for series, merge, and split topologies with