Flexible resource management and its effect on project cost and duration

Subject Areas : Mathematical Optimization

Desta A. Hailemariam ¹ , Xiaojun Shan ² , Sung H. Chung ³ , Mohammad T. Khasawneh ⁴ , William Lukesh ⁵ , Angela Park ⁶ , Adam Rose ⁷ , Denis C . Pinha ⁸ , Rashpal S. Ahluwalia ⁹

1 - Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA|New England Veterans Engineering Resource Center, Jamaica Plain Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boston, USA
2 - Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA
3 - Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA
4 - Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA
5 - New England Veterans Engineering Resource Center, Jamaica Plain Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boston, USA
6 - New England Veterans Engineering Resource Center, Jamaica Plain Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boston, USA
7 - Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Bedford, MA, USA|Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
8 - West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
9 - West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Received: 2020-10-08 Accepted : 2020-10-08 Published : 2020-03-01

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