A multiple objective embedded network model for human resource planning and an implementation of the Tchebycheff method

Decision Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 319-341

  Drinka, Dennis ^a   Sun, Minghe ^a   Murray, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Managerial Problem Solving Processes; Mathematical Programming; Network Theory; Quantitative Techniques Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030488910     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1996.tb01720.x     Document Type: Article

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