An improved metric for measuring multi-item multi-level schedule instability under rolling schedules

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 691-707

  Kabak, Kamil Erkan ^a   Ornek, Arslan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Metrics; Nervousness; Rolling schedules; Schedule instability

Indexed keywords

DAMPENING PROCEDURES; DEGREE OF CHANGES; EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS; INSTABILITY MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; METRICS; MULTI ITEMS; MULTI LEVELS; NERVOUSNESS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; PLANNING SYSTEMS; ROLLING SCHEDULES; SCHEDULE INSTABILITY; SIMULATION STUDIES;

STABILITY;

EID: 59349092407     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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