Scheduling projects with heterogeneous resources to meet time and quality objectives

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 780-790

  Tiwari, Vikram ^a   Patterson, James H ^b   Mabert, Vincent A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial optimization; Heterogeneous resources; Multi mode; Project scheduling; Rework; Service quality

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES; MULTI-MODE; PROJECT SCHEDULING; REWORK; SERVICE QUALITY;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 53649107339     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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