Vacation policies for machine repair problem with two type spares

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 880-894

  Ke, Jau Chuan ^a   Wang, Kuo Hsiung ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Machine repair problem; Multiple vacations; Single vacation; Spare

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY; REPAIR;

MACHINE REPAIR PROBLEM; MATRIX GEOMETRIC THEORY; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; VACATION POLICIES;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY; REPAIR;

EID: 33845589090     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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