Multiple shift scheduling of hierarchical workforce with multiple work centers

Informatica

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 325-342

  Al Yakoob, Salem M ^a   Sherali, Hanif D ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee scheduling; Hierarchical workforce; Manpower scheduling; Mixed integer programming; Scheduling algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848827076     PISSN: 08684952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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