Note on the convexity of the stationary waiting time as a function of the density

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 503-508

  Hordijk, Arie ^a   Van Der Laan, Dinard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

AVERAGE WAITING-TIME; CONVEX FUNCTIONS; PARALLEL QUEUES; STATIONARY WAITING TIME;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 1642560688     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964803174050     Document Type: Article

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