Workforce management and optimization using stochastic network models

2006 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1142-1145

  Lu, Yingdong ^b   Radovanović, Ana ^a,b   Squillante, Mark S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERVICEABILITY CONSTRAINTS; STOCHASTIC NETWORK MODELS; WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 36048997237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2006.236839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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