The effects of learning, forgetting, and relearning on decision rule performance in multiproject scheduling

Decision Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-82

  Ash, Robert ^a   Smith Daniels, Dwight E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041033427     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb01601.x     Document Type: Article

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