The optimal service policies in an M/G/1 queueing system with multiple vacation types

INFOR

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 357-366

  Zhang, Zhe George ^a,b   Vickson, Raymond ^c   Love, Ernie ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Average Costs; Semi Markov Decisions; Threshold Policies; Vacation Models

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SERVERS;

VACATION MODELS;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 0042158508     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03155986.2001.11732448     Document Type: Article

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