A multiclass hybrid production center in heavy traffic

Operations Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3 SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages

  Nguyen, Viên ^a  

^a Booz Allen and Hamilton Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Production scheduling: approximations of hybrid production systems; Queues, diffusion models: heavy traffic unit of mixed queues; Queues, networks: queueing networks with open and closed customers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUEUEING THEORY;

HEAVY TRAFFIC LIMIT THEOREM;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032075728     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.46.3.s13     Document Type: Article

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