Activity routing in a distributed supply chain: Performance evaluation with two inputs

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 402-428

  Bhaskar, Vidhyacharan ^a   Lallement, Patrick ^b  

^a SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

Average queue lengths; Average response times; Average waiting times; Equivalent service rates; Optimum capacity; Steady state probabilities

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; QUEUEING NETWORKS; STAGES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); INPUT QUEUING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (PE); PERFORMANCE MEASURE (PF); QUEUE LENGTHS; QUEUING NETWORK; RESPONSE TIME; RESPONSE TIMES; SERVICE RATES; SINGLE SERVERS; WAITING TIMES;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 47949108995     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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