Using simulation to approximate subgradients of convex performance measures in service systems

Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1824-1832

  Atlason, Júlíus ^a   Epelman, Marina A ^a   Henderson, Shane G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CALL CENTERS; DISCRETE FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 1642559456     PISSN: 02750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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