Search Results - subject:"workload allocation"

Integrated planning of maintenance operations and workload allocation

Rodoplu, Melek; Dauzère-Péres, Stéphane; … - In: International journal of production research 61 (2023) 23, pp. 8291-8308

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A method for effective yard template design in container terminals

Li, Ming-Kun - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 8 (2014) 1, pp. 1-21

Effective storage space planning is important and complex, especially for container terminals with congested storage yards. The technique of yard template design, which normally specifies a set of storage locations in a group of yard blocks for export containers of various vessel services, is...

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Functioning staff or staffing functions?

Fitsimmons, Gary - In: The Bottom Line 25 (2012) 4, pp. 152-154

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a model for staffing library functions that is free from the limits of rigid job descriptions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper introduces the concept of fluid job descriptions and then explains how to use the concept to balance...

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Optimality of the Symmetric Workload Allocation in a Single-Server Flow Line System

Kim, Hyoungtae; Park, Sungsoo - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 3, pp. 449-451

workload allocation problem for a manufacturing flow line system. The system consists of N single-Erlang servers in series … having a common interstation buffer capacity. SAP says a symmetric workload allocation exists among the optimal solutions. We … apply the line reversibility property to obtain an alternative optimal allocation symmetric for any optimal workload …

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A Psychological Perspective on Service Segmentation Models: The Significance of Accounting for Consumers' Perceptions of Waiting and Service

Carmon, Ziv; Shanthikumar, J. George; Carmon, Tali F. - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 11, pp. 1806-1815

We examine how service should be divided and scheduled when it can be provided in multiple separate segments. We analyze variants of this problem using a model with a conventional function describing the waiting cost, that is modified to account for some aspects of the psychological cost of...

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