Activity consolidation to improve responsiveness

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 683-703

  Rummel, Jeffrey L ^a   Walter, Zhiping ^b   Dewan, Rajiv ^c   Seidmann, Abraham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Combinatorial optimization; Project management and scheduling; Tabu search; Workflow design

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING (BPR); COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING; TABU SEARCH; WORKFLOW DESIGN;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 7444264088     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2003.07.015     Document Type: Article

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