Optimal Policies for M/M/m Queue with Two Different Kinds of (N, T)-Policies

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 240-258

  Li, Wei ^a   Alfa, Attahiru Sule ^b  

^a University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

(N, T) policy; Long run average cost; N policy; T policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342773263     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(200004)47:3<240::AID-NAV4>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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