Setting base stock levels using product-form queueing networks

Management Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 259-268

  Rubio, Rodrigo ^a   Wein, Lawrence M ^a  

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Author keywords

Production Inventory Systems; Queueing Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000115495     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.2.259     Document Type: Article

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