The travel time in carousel systems under the nearest item heuristic

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-54

  Litvak, Nelly ^a   Adan, Ivo ^b  

^a EURANDOM   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Memory less property; Order picking; Spacings; Uniform order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035533764     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/996986642     Document Type: Article

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