Inventory based allocation policies for flexible servers in serial systems

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-23

  Arumugam, Ramesh ^a   Mayorga, Maria E ^a   Taaffe, Kevin M ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible servers; Server allocation; Throughput

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249083771     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-008-0465-4     Document Type: Article

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