The missouri lottery optimizes its scheduling and routing to improve efficiency and balance

Interfaces

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 302-313

  Jang, Wooseung ^a   Lim, Huay H ^a   Crowe, Thomas J ^a   Raskin, Gail ^b   Perkins, Thomas E ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b Missouri Lottery   (United States)

Author keywords

Gambling; Games; Group decisions; Transportation; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746909483     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1060.0204     Document Type: Review

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