Scheduling and staffing multiple projects with a multi-skilled workforce

OR Spectrum

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 343-368

  Heimerl, Christian ^a   Kolisch, Rainer ^a  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous efficiencies; Multi skilled resources; Project scheduling; Project staffing; Resource assignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349123567     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-009-0169-4     Document Type: Article

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