Optimal (d, c) vacation policy for a finite buffer M/M/c queue with unreliable servers and repairs

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3949-3962

  Ke, Jau Chuan ^a   Lin, Chuen Horng ^b   Yang, Jyun Yi ^b   Zhang, Zhe George ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Graduate School of Computer Science and Information Technology   (Taiwan)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average profit; Direct search algorithm; Markovian queue; Server vacations; Unreliable servers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PROFIT; DIRECT SEARCH ALGORITHM; MARKOVIAN QUEUE; SERVER VACATIONS; UNRELIABLE SERVERS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SALES; SERVERS;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 67349097422     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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