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Production Planning & Control
The Management of Operations
Volume 17, 2006 - Issue 3: Production and operations under SMEs' perspective, edited by V. Leopoulos
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Improved heuristic for manpower shift planning with modified shift priorities

A. G. Lagodimos Department of Business Administration, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli and Dimitriou Street, GR-185 34 Piraeus, GreeceCorrespondence[email protected]
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J. A. Paravantis Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli and Dimitriou Street, GR-185 34 Piraeus, Greece
Pages 301-310 | Published online: 21 Feb 2007

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