Flexible 4-day workweek scheduling with weekend work frequency constraints

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 325-338

  Alfares, Hesham K ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Integer programming; Labor scheduling; Optimization; Staffing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

LABOR SCHEDULING;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037352880     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(02)00192-4     Document Type: Article

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