Admission control with incomplete information of a queueing system

Operations Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 645-654

  Lin, Kyle Y ^a   Ross, Sheldon M ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming optimal control: applications in queueing systems; Queues: admission control, optimal and heuristic policies

Indexed keywords

ADMISSION CONTROL; OPTIMAL POLICY; QUEUEING SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SERVERS;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 3242801091     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.51.4.645.16103     Document Type: Article

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