Continuous-time Markov model for geriatric patients behavior. Optimization of the bed occupancy and computer simulation

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 185-195

  Gorunescu, Marina ^a   Gorunescu, Florin ^b   Prodan, Augustin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^c IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bed occupancy modelling; Continuous time Markov model; Java simulation class; M Ph c queuing model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUEUEING THEORY;

BED-OCCUPANCY; CONTINUOUS-TIME; CONTINUOUS-TIME MARKOV PROCESS; JAVA SIMULATIONS; MARKOV MODEL; QUEUING MODELS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84906255455     PISSN: 15985865     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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