| Article ID: | iaor2001507 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 120 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 511 |
| End Page Number: | 524 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2000 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Yu Po-Lung, Li Jian-Ming, Chiang Chin-I |
| Keywords: | decision: applications |
In this paper, we consider the expansion processes of competence sets which have asymmetric cost functions, intermediate skills, and compound skills; among the skills, cyclic connections are possible. We introduce the concept of the stage expansion process (SEP) of the competence set, and provide mathematical programming methods to find a minimal cost SEP and the ordering of expansion.