Schedule recovery: Unplanned absences in service operations

Decision Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 459-488

  Eastont, Fred F ^a,c   Goodale, John C ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor and Staff Planning; Mathematical Programming Optimization; Service Operations; Staff Planning; Workforce Scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844577252     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2005.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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