Numerical solutions of renewal-type integral equations

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-74

  Tortorella, Michael ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of algorithms; Inventory; Queues; Reliability; Software

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; RELIABILITY;

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL-SOLUTION METHOD; QUADRATURE RULES; RENEWAL TYPE;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 14644437664     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1030.0054     Document Type: Article

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