Decision making in a standby service system

Decision Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 573-593

  Ravinder, H V ^a   Schultz, Carl R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Parameter estimation; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039029311     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2000.tb00935.x     Document Type: Article

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