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Optimal design of a manpower system

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An equilibrium model of a manpower system is developed based on the notion of a career flow. Institutional constraints and measures of system performance are linear functions of the career flow. A typical optimal design problem is formulated and a solution procedure is developed. The optimization problem is a generalized linear program in which columns are generated by solving a shortest path problem. Upper and lower bounds on the optimal value function can be developed at each stage of the calculations.

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  1. Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Richard C. Grinold

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This research was supported by ONR grant N00014-75-C-0619.

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Grinold, R.C. Optimal design of a manpower system. Mathematical Programming 15, 26–35 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01608997

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