Fluctuation smoothing policies are stable for stochastic re-entrant lines

Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 361-370

  Kumar, Sunil ^a   Kumar, P R ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACHINERY; PRODUCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SYSTEM STABILITY;

FLUCTUATION SMOOTHING POLICIES FOR MEAN CYCLE TIME; LAST BUFFER FIRST SERVE POLICY; STOCHASTIC RE ENTRANT LINES;

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EID: 0030270118     PISSN: 09246703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01797136     Document Type: Article

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