A Method for Least-Cost Scheduling of Personnel through Training Course Sequences

C. D. Roach

ResearchPublished 1974

An algorithm that finds the five least-cost sequences for scheduling military personnel through a series of courses where the costs incurred are transportation costs. The algorithm adapts the implicit enumeration approach of integer programming to this pipeline flow problem and will require at least [(n - 2.8)n]' fewer computations than total enumeration, where [n] is the number of courses. It can also be used to determine the least-cost sequences when mixed travel modes are involved.

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