Optimal human resource allocation with finite servers and queuing capacity

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 156-160

  Lan, C H ^a   Lan, T S ^b   Chen, M S ^a,c  

^a NANHUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DE LIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c Systems Analysis Society

Author keywords

Computerised tool; Cumulative probability function; Finite queue size; Human resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SERVERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOOLS; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; FINITE QUEUE SIZE; HUMAN RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 27644568104     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2005.007480     Document Type: Article

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