Performance analysis and optimization of assemble-to-order systems with random lead times

Operations Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Song, Jing Sheng ^a   Yao, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory production: multi item; Operating characteristics; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

POISSON PROCESS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0036758161     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.50.5.889.372     Document Type: Article

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