Abstract
For engineering consulting companies, it is a major issue for decision makers to effectively use their available manpower resource to accomplish given jobs in a specified time period. In this research we employ mathematic programming techniques to develop a mixed integer programming model, given available engineer resource, project/job demand and related constraints, to optimally solve medium or large manpower assignment problems, in order to help the decision maker effectively assign projects/jobs to engineers. To demonstrate the model application and to preliminarily test the model in practice, we perform a case study using real operating data from an engineering consulting company. The results show that the model could be useful reference in practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 585-595 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of the Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Dec 2008 |
Keywords
- Construction inspection cost
- Manpower assignment
- Manpower resource
- Mixed integer programming