Disaggregation : Problems in manufacturing and service organizations

1. Perspectives on disaggregation -- 2. Disaggregation in manufacturing and service organizations: survey of problems and research -- 3. Toward a theory of hierarchical coordination and conflict -- 4. An MSA view of disaggregation -- 5. Hierarchical planning systems: a production application -- 6. Optimal aggregation and disaggregation in hierarchical planning -- 7. A hierarchical approach for the planning of a complex production system -- 8. A hierarchical approach to multilocation inventory systems -- 9. A disaggregation problem and a search enumeration algorithm for a multiplant, multiproduct scheduling application -- 10. An efficient algorithm for multi-item scheduling -- 11. Large scale optimization for master production scheduling -- 12. Multi-item scheduling with reflection programming -- 13. An approach to the analysis of integrated production-distribution systems -- 14. Empirical relationships among budgets, other financially-oriented aggregate plans, and the master production schedule (MPS) -- 15. Hedging the master schedule -- 16. The disaggregation problem in the paper industry -- 17. An economic lot size algorithm for multi-level inventory systems with acyclic network structures -- 18. Impact of a product structure measure on the effectiveness of lot sizing techniques -- 19. The effects of joint lot size strategies on capacity related performance in a multi-stage production-inventory system -- 20. The impact of capacity on lot sizing decisions -- 21. Variations in optimizing serial multi-stage production/inventory systems -- 22. Priority updating procedures in dynamic job shop simulation studies: the impact on measures of performance under different due date assignment rules -- 23. A review of flowshop scheduling research -- 24. An aggregate-disaggregate approach to the large scale multiple project scheduling problem -- 25. Shift scheduling for telephone operators and service office employees -- 26. A complete control system for workforce management at a post office -- 27. Decision making in the public sector: an application of goal interval programming for disaggregation in the post office -- 28. Disaggregation of manpower in a service organization -- 29. Facilities planning in the railroad industry: the need for disaggregation -- 30. Vehicle dispatching — sweep algorithm and extensions -- 31. Navy enlisted manpower planning -- 32. A public policy optimization model with simulation of disaggregation aspects: formulation of energy R and D policy -- 33. Costs and benefits of a computer based regional blood inventory system -- 34. Multi-level police patrol planning -- 35. Disaggregation of the decisions to allocate patrol resources to police precincts -- 36. Economically optimal quantity and mix of fire department services -- 37. Disaggregation planning, scheduling and allocation of nursing staff -- 38. ‘Disaggregate mathematical models of optimal hospital bed management -- 39. Recursive modeling of outpatient health care settings -- 40. Nurse scheduling: a case of disaggregation in the public sector -- 41. Computerized scheduling of hospital nursing personnel: disaggregation to accommodate individual preferences and nonroutine constraints -- 42. Disaggregating health utilization data for planning -- 43. Scheduling workers in situations having highly variable manpower requirements -- 44. Optimal scheduling of two consecutive work periods -- 45. A simple method for obtaining cyclic employee schedules -- 46. Heuristic work force scheduling with variable shift lengths and labor productivity differences: a case study of encoder staffing.