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Can Flexibility Be Constraining?
Pinker, E; Lee, HH; Berman, O - 2010
Five Common Options For Workforce Flexibility And Their Robustness Under Uncertain Demand Are Investigated. In The First Stage, A Firm Makes Optimal Staffing Decisions According To Estimated Demand And A Given Workforce Flexibility Policy. In The Second Stage, It Reallocates Its Workforce To...
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Operations Research Methods Applied to Workflow in a Medical Records Department
Edna Chan, S.-Y.; Ohlmann, Jeff; Dunbar, Steven; … - 2002
Transcribing medical documents accurately into pre-defined formats and within certain time frames is vital for administrative and medical purposes in any hospital. This paper describes quantitative models incorporating available data to represent transcription activities of a medical records...
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Competitive algorithms for due date scheduling
Bansal, N; Chan, HL; Pruhs, K - 2009
We consider several online scheduling problems that arise when customers request make-to-order products from a company … produce the good by the due date. The company must have an online algorithm with two components: The first component sets the …)-speed {Mathematical expression}-competitive algorithm for this problem (here k is the ratio of the maximum work of a job to the minimum …
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Joint optimization of location and inventory decisions for improving supply chain cost performance
Cetinkaya, Sila (contributor); Uster, Halit (contributor) - 2007
nonlinear optimization programming.Based on how the underlying facility location problem is modeled, thesemodels fall into two …
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RINs and the ethanol supply chain: an alternative view
Figer, Luiz - 2011
Biofuels are meant to be an environmental friendly alternative for the use of fossil fuels. Thisidea led to the use of subsidies in order to support their production and use. In the USA, the EPAis in charge of establishing mandates to obligated parties and enforcing compliance....
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Multi-object decision making for supplier selection in outsourcing
Mohile, Pushpen K. - 2008
A supply chain is the system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information,and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Themain and basic challenges in the supply chain are to plan a strategy to manage theresources and meet the demands, to...
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Resource allocation in the Grid. A market engineering approach
Schnizler, Björn - 2007
The Grid provides access to distributed computational capabilities such as processors or storage space. One of the key problems is deciding which jobs are to be allocated to which resources at what time. In this context, the use of market mechanisms is a promising approach to solve these...
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Market-Based Scheduling in Distributed Computing Systems
Stößer, Jochen - 2009
In verteilten Rechensystemen (bspw. im Cluster und Grid Computing) kann eine Knappheit der zur Verfügung stehenden Ressourcen auftreten. Hier haben Marktmechanismen das Potenzial, Ressourcenbedarf und -angebot durch geeignete Anreizmechanismen zu koordinieren und somit die ökonomische...
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Resource aggregation issues and effects in mixed model assembly
Burdett, Robert L.; Kozan, Erhan - 2003
sequencing and scheduling decisions may be performed more efficiently. Resource aggregation can potentially and significantly … machine scheduling environment and for any combination of distinct and indistinct resources. A number of alternative measures …
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Sequencing and scheduling in flowshops with task redistribution
Burdett, Robert L.; Kozan, Erhan - 2001
scheduling. From an extensive numerical investigation, the benefits achieved by the application of this methodology are detailed. …
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