Designing safe job rotation schedules using optimization and heuristic search

Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 543-560

  Carnahan, Brian J ^a   Redfern, Mark S ^b   Norman, Bryan ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Integer Programming; Job rotation scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACK; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; WEIGHT LIFTING; WORK SCHEDULE;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; JOB ANALYSIS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

JOB ROTATION; JOB SEVERITY INDEX;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0033998529     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401300184404     Document Type: Article

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