Keyword: queues: theory

Found 542 papers in total
Inducing performance in a queue via prices: The case of a riverine port
2000,
To optimize large-scale queuing systems configurations, OR professionals typically use...
A solvable queueing network model for railway networks and its validation and applications for the Netherlands
2002,
The performance of new railway networks cannot be measured or simulated, as no...
Nash equilibrium and subgame perfection in observable queues
2002,
A subgame perfection refinement of Nash equilibrium is suggested for games of the...
Markov processes on a semi-infinite strip and the geometric tail algorithm
2002,
Many queuing processes have a semi-infinite strip in the two-dimensional plane as...
A queueing model with input of Moving Picture Exports Group (MPEG) frame sequence and interfering traffic
2002,
We study a queueing system having a mixture of a special semi-Markov process (SSMP)...
Optimal and near-optimal inventory control policies for a make-to-order inventory–production system
2002,
This paper examines several inventory replenishment policies for a make-to-order...
Simulation of back-deck operations on a marine seismic vessel
2001,
Marine seismic vessels deploy exploration equipment from their back decks in...
Accounting for time-varying queueing effects in workforce scheduling
2002,
We developed a method for workforce scheduling that models both the structure of the...
Robust design of server capability in M/M/1 queues with both partly random arrival and service rates
2002,
In this paper we consider a robust design of controllable factors related to the...
Expected makespan minimization on identical machines in two interconnected queues
2001,
We study the scheduling of jobs in a system of two interconnected service stations,...
An intermittent fluid system with exponential on-times and semi-Markov input rates
2001,
We consider a fluid system in which during off-times the buffer content increases as a...
Control of a limited resource on the finite time interval in automatic queueing systems
2002,
A problem of establishing a dynamic price in the sale of a commodity with the finite...
An analysis of the production line versus the case manager approach to information intensive services
1999,
The production line approach has been beneficially used in manufacturing companies to...
Palm theory for random time changes
2001,
Palm distributions are basic tools when studying stationarity in the context of point...
Two-step procedures in palm theory
2001,
Random time changes (RTCs) are right-continuous and non-decreasing random functions...
Performance evaluation of unbalanced flow lines with general distributed processing times, failures and imperfect production
2001,
In this paper an analytical approximation for the performance of non-homogeneous...
Effective sequencing rules for closed manufacturing networks
2001,
This paper develops a method for determining sequencing policies to effectively...
On the asymptotic optimality of the shortest processing time rule for the flow shop average completion time problem
2000,
Consider a flowshop with M machines in series, through which a set of jobs are to be...
Improving the stationary independent period by period approach for staffing service systems that have cyclic demands
2001,
This paper evaluates the practice of determining staffing requirements in service...
Enhancing competitiveness of the customer loan center at Promistar Financial Corporation
2001,
When a prospective automobile buyer seeks dealer financing, the dealer typically faxes...
Dynamic allocation of kidneys to candidates on the transplant waiting list
2000,
The crux of the kidney allocation problem is the trade-off between clinical efficiency...
A linear programming approach to the steady-state analysis of reflected Brownian motion
2001,
We investigate a computational method proposed by Bertsimas, Paschalidis, and...
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