Assigning students to academic majors

Omega

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 513-523

  Saber, Hussein M ^a   Ghosh, Jay B ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Application; Education; Mathematical programming; Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042919578     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(01)00041-X     Document Type: Article

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