Resource pooling for optimal evacuation of a large building

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5565-5570

  Deng, Kun ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Mehta, Prashant G ^a   Meyn, Sean P ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUEUEING THEORY;

CONTROL SOLUTIONS; CURSE OF DIMENSIONALITY; DECENTRALIZED ROUTING; EVACUATION TIME; LARGE BUILDINGS; MAXWEIGHT POLICIES; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; RESOURCE POOLING;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 62949122554     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2008.4739428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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