Flexible resource allocation for service and production systems

• Main Author: WANG, Peng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: resource allocation; bucket brigade; stochastic systems; robust optimization; Business Administration, Management, and Operations; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/332; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Resource flexibility hedges against uncertainty in service and production systems. However, flexibility also brings complexity and difficulty in allocating resources. The thesis mainly studies managing flexible resources in two scenarios. The first scenario is a type of coordination of workers in a...