Drift rate control of a brownian processing system

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1145-1160

  Ata, Bariş ^a,d   Harrison, J M ^b,e   Shepp, L A ^c,f  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion Approximations; Dynamic Scheduling; Heavy Traffic Theory; Queueing Systems; Stochastic Control

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244441995     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/105051604000000855     Document Type: Article

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