Real-time work schedule adjustment decisions: An investigation and evaluation

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 322-339

  Hur, Daesik ^a   Mabert, Vincent A ^b   Bretthauer, Kurt M ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal programming; Heuristics; Service operations; Simulation; Workforce schedule adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544292436     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2004.tb00221.x     Document Type: Review

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