Numerical Solution of the Problem of Optimum Distribution of Effort

William Miehle
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William Miehle: Research Center, Burroughs Corporation, Paoli, Pennsylvania

Operations Research, 1954, vol. 2, issue 4, 433-440

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. Operations Research , ISSN 0030-364X, was published as Journal of the Operations Research Society of America from 1952 to 1955 under ISSN 0096-3984.

Date: 1954
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