Analysis of aircraft sortie generation with the use of a fork-join Queueing network model

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-164

  Dietz, Dennis C ^a   Jenkins, Richard C ^b  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AIRCRAFT SORTIE GENERATION PROCESS; FORK JOIN QUEUEING NETWORK MODEL; MEAN VALUE ANALYSIS (MVA);

MILITARY AVIATION;

EID: 0031103293     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199703)44:2<153::AID-NAV1>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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