Variance-based approximations of transaction waiting times in autonomous vehicle storage and retrieval systems

European Journal of Industrial Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 146-169

  Zhang, Li ^a   Krishnamurthy, Ananth ^b   Malmborg, Charles J ^c   Heragu, Sunderesh S ^d  

^a Royal Bank of Scotland Group Inc   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous Vehicle Storage and Retrieval Systems; AVS RSs; Non Poisson queuing approximations

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; AVS/RSS; DESIGN CONCEPTUALISATION; INTER-ARRIVAL TIME; MODELLING TOOLS; NON-POISSON QUEUING APPROXIMATIONS; SIMULATION-BASED VALIDATION; STATIC APPROXIMATIONS;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES;

EID: 62149111210     PISSN: 17515254     EISSN: 17515262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EJIE.2009.023603     Document Type: Article

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