Staff scheduling in high volume service facilities with downgrading

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 985-997

  Bard, Jonathan F ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; POSTAL SERVICES;

HIGH VOLUME SERVICE FACILITIES; MULTIPLE SKILLED WORKFORCE; WORKFORCE SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 4444271717     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170490487812     Document Type: Article

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