A robust decomposition method for the analysis of production lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 265-297

  Le Bihan, Hervé ^a   Dallery, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Decomposition method; Finite buffers; Hyper exponential distributions; Production lines; Unreliable machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034405773     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018996428429     Document Type: Article

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