| Article ID: | iaor1991885 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 319 |
| End Page Number: | 328 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1989 |
| Journal: | IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry |
| Authors: | James D.J.G., Rumchev V.G. |
| Keywords: | control processes |
Feedback control principles are used to develop recruitment policies for manpower systems, with and without vacancies being considered. The problem of reaching a desired steady-state distribution is also formulated and discussed as a linear programming problem.