When should a roving server be patient?

Management Science

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 437-451

  Srinivasan, Mandyam M ^a   Gupta, Diwakar ^a  

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Author keywords

Patient Server Mechanism; Polling Systems; Production cyclic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005489956     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.3.437     Document Type: Article

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