Entropy as a measure of operational flexibility

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2004.01.033MaRDI QIDQ1771358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eyas Shuiabi, Vince Thomson, Nadia Bhuiyan

Publication date 21 April 2005

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2004.01.033

zbMATH Keywords

SimulationEntropyFlexibilityOperations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90)

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