Planning annualised hours with a finite set of weekly working hours and joint holidays

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 128, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 217-233

  Corominas, Albert ^a   Lusa, Amaia ^a   Pastor, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Annualised hours; Integer programming; Manpower planning; Service industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043068041     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ANOR.0000019106.52631.ff     Document Type: Article

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