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bottleneck assignment problem

bottleneck assignment problem

[′bäd·əl‚nek ə′sīn·mənt ‚präb·ləm]
(industrial engineering)
A linear programming problem in which it is required to assign machines to jobs (or vice versa) so that the efficiency of the least efficient operation is maximized.
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