A Comparative Evaluation of Labor Tour Scheduling Methods

Decision Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 683-699

  Bechtold, Stephen E ^a   Brusco, Michael J ^b   Showalter, Michael J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

and Service Operations Magagement; Heuristics; Linear Programming; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985773391     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1991.tb00359.x     Document Type: Article

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