Capacity expansion for a loss system with exponential demand growth

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1525-1537

  Simampo, Alexander ^a   Ryan, Sarah M ^b  

^a Sabritec Inc   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity expansion; Erlang loss formula; Loss system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COSTS; EDUCATION; FORECASTING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EXPONENTIAL DEMAND GROWTH;

FINANCE;

FORECASTING METHOD; GROWTH;

EID: 0037616428     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(02)00081-3     Document Type: Article

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