A framework for decision support systems for scheduling problems

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 452-462

  Ecker, Klaus ^a   Gupta, Jatinder N D ^b   Schmidt, Günter ^c  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict hypergraph; Conflict resolution; Decision support system; Hard and soft constraints; Problem base management system

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; GRAPH THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

PROBLEM MANAGEMENT;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0031220048     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00186-5     Document Type: Article

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