Concurrent crashing and overlapping in product development

Operations Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 606-622

  Roemer, Thomas A ^a   Ahmadi, Reza ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crashing; Development costs; Development leadtimes; Overlapping; Product development processes

Indexed keywords

CRASHING; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; DEVELOPMENT LEADTIMES; OVERLAPPING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES;

ALGORITHMS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; COSTS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PUBLIC POLICY; THEOREM PROVING;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 4544267535     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1040.0125     Document Type: Article

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