Partitioning customers into service groups

Management Science

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1579-1592

  Whitt, Ward ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUEUEING THEORY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

MULTISERVER QUEUES; SERVICE-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0033365007     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.45.11.1579     Document Type: Article

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