Chapter 5 Multivariate Input Processes

Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 13, Issue C, 2006, Pages 123-153

  Biller, Bahar ^a   Ghosh, Soumyadip ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 77950487697     PISSN: 09270507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0507(06)13005-4     Document Type: Review

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