Parallel system scheduling with general worker learning and forgetting

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 533-542

  Nembhard, David A ^a   Bentefouet, Frank ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Individual differences; Learning; Scheduling; Unrelated tasks; Worker performance

Indexed keywords

FORGETTING; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LEARNING; UNRELATED TASKS; WORKER PERFORMANCE;

FUNCTIONS; SCHEDULING;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84864752131     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.05.024     Document Type: Article

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