Optimising production cost and end-product quality when raw material quality is varying
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Cost minimization through optimized raw material quality composition
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Chemometrics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0886-9383,1099-128X
DOI: 10.1002/cem.1043