Non-homogeneous servers in emergency medical systems: Practical applications using the hypercube queueing model

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 255-270

  Morabito, Reinaldo ^a   Chiyoshi, Fernando ^b   Galvão, Roberto D ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ambulance deployment; Emergency medical systems; Hypercube model; Non homogeneous servers; Queueing

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY VESSEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 51449107017     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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