Capacity management in rental businesses with two customer bases

Operations Research

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 617-631

  Savin, Sergei V ^a   Cohen, Morris A ^b   Gans, Noah ^b   Katalan, Ziv ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid models; Queueing control; Service systems; Stochastic knapsack

Indexed keywords

FLUID MODELS; QUEUEING CONTROL; SERVICE SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC KNAPSACK;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 25144495497     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1040.0193     Document Type: Article

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