Future Research

Future research directions might include development of efficient dynamic heuristics to solve larger scale dynamic downgrading problem, focus on estimating a demand model and generating economic scenarios to improve the discrete approximation of the probability distribution. In addition, establishing a multi-objective stochastic model for C/D wafers problem to minimize total cost can achieve multiple planning targets at one time.

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