Minimizing costs of sequential and parallel personnel testing programs

Paul D. Feigin and Gedaliahu H. Harel

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1982, vol. 29, issue 1, 87-95

Abstract: We consider groups of tests for personnel selection purposes in which each test has a known a priori probability of being failed, such failure resulting in outright rejection and termination of testing. Each test has a fixed cost and given duration. We consider the minimization of the total expected cost due to both the fixed costs and the delay costs when the tests may be conducted sequentially or in parallel. In the latter situation, a heuristic algorithm is proposed and illustrated.

Date: 1982
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