Innovation and Supply Chain Management
Online ISSN : 2187-8684
Print ISSN : 2187-0969
ISSN-L : 2185-0135
vol10no2
Optimal Worker Assignment Considering Worker’s Skill on Different Task in Limited-Cycle Multiple Periods
Xianda KongHisashi YamamotoJing SunMasayuki MATSUI
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2016 Volume 10 Issue 2 Pages 61-67

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In uncertain cases, the result and efficiency of a current period (or production cycle) are in?uenced not only by the risks which exist in current period but also by the risks which exist in the previous ones. What is more, the risk itself is also affected greatly by the risks which exist in the earlier periods. This kind of problem is called a limited-cycle problem with multiple periods. Normally, workers ’efficiency is different on different tasks. How can we get an optimal assignment to minimize the total expected costs? In this paper, we consider the optimal worker assignment considering two kinds of efficiency, clever or poor efficiency on tasks. The regularity will be described that n-1 workers have two clever tasks of all, 1 worker has no clever task by contrast. Also, some numerical experiments will be done to check out the regularity of the optimal assignment that each worker has two or three clever tasks.

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