Control of a single-server tandem queueing system with setups

Operations Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 218-230

  Duenyas, Izak ^a   Gupta, Diwakar ^a   Olsen, Tava Lennon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; DECISION THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; QUEUEING THEORY;

MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; SINGLE SERVER TANDEM QUEUEING SYSTEMS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0032027344     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.46.2.218     Document Type: Article

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