Minimizing the expected response time of an idled server on a line

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 401-408

  Lu, Xinjian ^a   Gerchak, Yigal ^b  

^a Prior Data Sciences   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING THEORY;

ANTICIPATORY MOVES;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032045424     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408179808966479     Document Type: Article

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