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Most processes consist of several operations. Some or all of these operations may have more than one alternative technological method, resulting in an exponential relationship between the number of possible designs and the number of operation alternatives. However, some of these designs may not...

Several problems, including the long-range process design problem, have been formulated as a compatibility matrix. Earlier, Singhal et al. (1988) proposed a partial enumeration algorithm which found all feasible designs and reported computational results. However, for large problems, the partial...