Inter-departure times in base-stock inventory-queues

Queueing Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 345-361

  Bai, Liwei ^a   Fralix, Brian ^a   Liu, Liming ^b   Shang, Weixin ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

base stock policy; birth death process; inter departure time; inventory queue; Palm probability

Indexed keywords

QUEUEING THEORY; SUPPLY CHAINS;

BASE STOCK POLICY; BIRTH-DEATH PROCESS; DEPARTURE TIME; INVENTORY QUEUE; PALM PROBABILITIES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 4043098256     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:QUES.0000036396.19059.3b     Document Type: Article

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