1. NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF OPTIMUM DISTRIBUTION OF EFFORT.
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Miehle, William
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NUMERICAL analysis ,MATHEMATICAL analysis ,COMPUTERS ,TASKS ,MATHEMATICAL optimization ,OPERATIONS research ,EQUATIONS ,ADDITIVE functions ,MATHEMATICS - Abstract
This paper is an extension of previously published work by Bernard O. Koopman to the general case of any number of tasks and any effect function. A systematic method for the numerical calculation of the maximum effect and its corresponding optimum distribution is presented in a form which is also suitable for solution on an automatic digital computer. For the special case of additive returns which saturate, a special graphical or numerical method for any number of tasks is presented with an example worked out in detail A similar method for multiplicative effects is sketched. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1954
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