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Workforce Design with Movement Restrictions Between Workstation Groups
Bard, Jonathan F.; Wan, Lin - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 10 (2008) 1, pp. 24-42
This paper is concerned with the problem of determining the optimal size and composition of a permanent workforce needed to run a facility when demand is specified by a workstation group (WSG) for up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For full-time employees, a solution is characterized by a bid...
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Hub location problems in transportation networks
Gelareh, Shahin; Nickel, Stefan - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 47 (2011) 6, pp. 1092-1111
even small size instances of problem, our accelerated and efficient primal (Benders) decomposition solves larger ones. In …
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A branch-and-price-and-cut approach for sustainable crop rotation planning
Alfandari, Laurent; Plateau, Agnès; Schepler, Xavier - In: European Journal of Operational Research 241 (2015) 3, pp. 872-879
In this paper, we study a multi-periodic production planning problem in agriculture. This problem belongs to the class of crop rotation planning problems, which have received considerable attention in the literature in recent years. Crop cultivation and fallow periods must be scheduled on land...
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Stage-wise solution to a bicriteria staff-scheduling model
Moeeni, Farhad; Chan, Yupo; Replogle, Stephen - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 3 (2011) 1, pp. 52-71
This paper proposes an efficient, stage-wise optimisation model for scheduling part-time staff. During stage 1, the problem is formulated as a totally unimodular integer linear programme (ILP) that produces integer solution upon solving its LP relaxation. The model produces optimum work shifts...
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Balancing operating theatre and bed capacity in a cardiothoracic centre
Bowers, John - In: Health Care Management Science 16 (2013) 3, pp. 236-244
Cardiothoracic surgery requires many expensive resources. This paper examines the balance between operating theatres and beds in a specialist facility providing elective heart and lung surgery. Without both operating theatre time and an Intensive Care bed a patient’s surgery has to be...
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New approaches to nurse rostering benchmark instances
Burke, Edmund K.; Curtois, Tim - In: European Journal of Operational Research 237 (2014) 1, pp. 71-81
This paper presents the results of developing a branch and price algorithm and an ejection chain method for nurse rostering problems. The approach is general enough to be able to apply it to a wide range of benchmark nurse rostering instances. The majority of the instances are real world...
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Shapley inequality decomposition by factor components: Some methodological issues
Sastre, Mercedes; Trannoy, Alain - In: Journal of Economics 77 (2002) 1, pp. 51-89
Decomposition analysis provides help in the difficult task of explaining how economies trends and government policies …” allocation method, a concept from cooperative game theory, to the decomposition of inequality. This paper examines the “Shapley … inequality decomposition” by factor components focussing in particular on some methodological issues that cannot be solved from a …
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Rethinking the Pfähler–Lambert decomposition to analyse real-world personal income taxes
Onrubia, Jorge; Picos-Sánchez, Fidel; Rodado, María Carmen - In: International Tax and Public Finance 21 (2014) 4, pp. 796-812
We provide a generalization and adaptation of the decomposition methodology by Pfähler (Bull Econ Res 42 …
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Combining DEA Window Analysis with the Malmquist Index Approach in a Study of the Canadian Banking Industry
Asmild, Mette; Paradi, Joseph; Aggarwall, Vanita; … - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 21 (2004) 1, pp. 67-89
index and for all suggested definitions of same period frontier, the standard decomposition into frontier shift and catching …
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Decomposing the change in profit of Taiwanese banks: incorporating risk
Juo, Jia-Ching - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 41 (2014) 2, pp. 247-262
. However, risk was never considered in the papers based on profit decomposition. Without considering risk, the empirical … see if incorporating the undesirable output matters. The decomposition of the change in profit in the above three models …
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