There’s an old adage in business: “Don’t tell me your priorities; show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what your priorities are.” In today’s data-driven environment, in which efficient resource ...

In linear programming, the objective function is the function that it is desired to maximize or minimize. The human interaction equivalent is what matters most. Agreement on that, and on the steps to ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 56, No. 6 (Jun., 2005), pp. 738-743 (6 pages) This paper deals with the assignment of a type of task to each member of a multi-function staff ...