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Technical Note—Allocation of Effort Resources among Competing Activities

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  • Hanan Luss

    (Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey)

  • Shiv K. Gupta

    (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Abstract

This paper presents problems of resource allocation among many activities, such as allocating a given marketing budget among sales territories, where the return function for each territory attains different parameters. Applying the Kuhn-Tucker conditions, we derive “single pass” algorithms for different concave payoff functions, maximizing total returns under a given amount of available effort. Various extensions are also mentioned.

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  • Hanan Luss & Shiv K. Gupta, 1975. "Technical Note—Allocation of Effort Resources among Competing Activities," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 23(2), pages 360-366, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:23:y:1975:i:2:p:360-366
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.23.2.360
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    1. Alexandre Belloni & Giuseppe Lopomo & Shouqiang Wang, 2017. "Resource Allocation Under Demand Uncertainty and Private Information," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 63(12), pages 4219-4235, December.
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    3. Hanan Luss, 1999. "On Equitable Resource Allocation Problems: A Lexicographic Minimax Approach," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 47(3), pages 361-378, June.
    4. Bintong Chen & Charles L. Munson, 2004. "Resource allocation with lumpy demand: To speed or not to speed?," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 51(3), pages 363-385, April.
    5. Steven J. Erlebacher & Medini R. Singh, 1999. "Optimal Variance Structures and Performance Improvement of Synchronous Assembly Lines," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 47(4), pages 601-618, August.
    6. Sönke Albers, 1998. "Regeln für die Allokation eines Marketing-Budgets auf Produkte oder Marktsegmente," Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, Springer, vol. 50(3), pages 211-235, March.
    7. Bajwa, Naeem & Sox, Charles R. & Ishfaq, Rafay, 2016. "Coordinating pricing and production decisions for multiple products," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 86-101.
    8. Renato de Matta & Vernon Ning Hsu & Timothy J. Lowe, 1999. "The selection allocation problem," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 46(6), pages 707-725, September.

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