Naval Research Logistics Quarterly · 1959 · 13 citations · 3 references
EngineeringEconomicsIndustrial EngineeringProduction EconomicsProduction EngineeringNetwork AnalysisNetwork FlowsOperations AnalysisProcess Flow AnalysisProduction TheoryNetwork Flow AnalysisNetwork Flow DiagramsNetwork Flow ModelsNetwork Flow ProblemsProduction Network DesignProduction SmoothingSmoothing
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show, on an example, how rather forbidding algebra may often be avoided by quite elementary considerations concerning flows in a properly constructed flow chart or network. The problem of production smoothing is incidental in the sense that it could have been replaced by other illustrations of the technique.
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Alan J. Hoffman, Walter Jacobs · Management Science · 1954 · 44 citations
Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management +17
Dynamic Programming and the Smoothing Problem
Richard Bellman · Management Science · 1956 · 30 citations