| Article ID: | iaor1995507 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 549 |
| End Page Number: | 558 |
| Publication Date: | May 1994 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Sundarraj R.P., Sundararaghavan P.S., Fox D.R. |
| Keywords: | queues: theory |
Several production and flexible manufacturing systems can naturally be modelled using queueing networks. This paper considers the problem of acquiring servers for the nodes of an open queueing network, so as to optimize the steady-state mean virtual system parameters subject to a budget constraint. A partial enumeration scheme and a heuristic method have been proposed to solve this problem. Empirical results based on randomly generated test problems are used to identify a class of problems for which the heuristic performs well.