Generating labor requirements and rosters for mail handlers using simulation and optimization

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2645-2666

  Qi, Xiangtong ^a   Bard, Jonathan F ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor requirements; Optimization validation; Shift scheduling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MAIL HANDLING; OPTIMIZATION; POSTAL SERVICES;

LABOR REQUIREMENTS; OPTIMIZATION VALIDATION; SHIFT SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 30744463897     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.02.022     Document Type: Article

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