Variant versus invariant time to total forgetting: The learn - Forget curve model revisited

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 697-705

  Jaber, Mohamad Y ^a   Kher, Hemant V ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Learning; Production breaks; Variant time to total forgetting

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COSTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING;

FORGETTING; LEARNING; PRODUCTION BREAKS; VARIANT TIME TO TOTAL FORGETTING;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 3242717790     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2004.05.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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