The TOC-based algorithm for solving multiple constraint resources

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 301-309

  Ray, Amitava ^a   Sarkar, Bijan ^b   Sanyal, Subir ^b  

^a SIKKIM MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Constraint resources; Theory of constraints

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION MODELS; HEURISTIC MODEL; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIPLE CONSTRAINT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RESOURCE CENTER; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; THEORY OF CONSTRAINT;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 77951620081     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2009.2023140     Document Type: Article

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