Dynamic assignment of flexible service resources

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 279-304

  Akçay, Yalçin ^a   Balakrishnan, Anant ^b   Xu, Susan H ^c  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic resource allocation; Flexible service resources; Heuristics; Overlapping flexibility structure; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953497125     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01095.x     Document Type: Article

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