The impact of setup times on the performance of multiclass service and production systems

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 989-1001

  Federgruen, Awi ^a   Katalan, Ziv ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; QUEUEING THEORY;

POLLING SYSTEMS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0030282573     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.6.989     Document Type: Article

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