Modeling truck-shovel systems as closed queueing network with multiple job classes

International Transactions in Operational Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-98

  Muduli, P K ^a   Yegulalp, T M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Closed queueing network; Open pit mining; Queueing theory; Truck shovel systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449114058     PISSN: 09696016     EISSN: 14753995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3995.1996.tb00038.x     Document Type: Article

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