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Efforts to eliminate unnecessary scheduling and inventory problems faced by
the coal industry today initiated the development of a generalized, nonlin
ear programming model. Although no accepted methodology for developing such
a model for this purpose currently exists, one was created and successfull
y tested. Production and transportation cost estimates were obtained from i
ndependent coal mines in Illinois, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and based on
these estimates, a hypothetical model was developed and tested using genet
ic search for nonlinear optimization. The results of our tests indicate tha
t the model has potential for decision support in coal mines.