Scheduling workforce relief breaks in advance versus in real-time

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2006.05.018zbMath1121.90341MaRDI QIDQ872250

Madeleine E. Pullman, Gary M. Thompson

Publication date: 27 March 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://hdl.handle.net/1813/72124

zbMATH Keywords

scheduling; manpower planning; relief breaks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B35: Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research

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