An Optimal Procedure for Allocating Manpower with Cyclic Requirements
- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in A I I E Transactions
- Vol. 5 (2) , 119-126
- https://doi.org/10.1080/05695557308974891
Abstract
Certain types of organizations operate continuously and must allocate personnel over time to meet fluctuating, but cyclical, staff requirements. The optimal allocation of personnel in this situation is formulated as an integer linear programming problem, and the special structure of the formulation is exploited in order to develop an efficient solution algorithm which requires only hand calculations. The relationship between optimal solutions and flexibility in the original data is also considered.Keywords
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