Publisher's Synopsis
This book addresses a major problem confronting all of the chemical manufacturing industry - how to efficiently balance the multiple goals associated with developing high quality products that are made by mixing. The book aims to combine operations research modelling and chemistry using OR techniques to solve problems in chemistry by applying computer models and mathematical programming. It intends to combine the principles of formulating with experimental design and mathematical prgramming to add the dimension of interactive goal programming.;Case studies are included to document the efficiency and usefulness of this method and the book is a model for combining these methodologies into an artificial intellgence based expert system.
