| Article ID: | iaor19981987 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 87 |
| End Page Number: | 98 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1997 |
| Journal: | International Transactions in Operational Research |
| Authors: | Zeigler Bernard P., Barros Fernando J. |
| Keywords: | philosophy, queues: theory |
Conventional modeling methodologies only give support for the representation of model behavior, providing no help for describing changes in model structure. Some models are better represented by changes in their structure. Instead of forcing these changes to be represented at the simple behavioral level, a strong theoretical support is needed to allow the representation of structural changes in a natural way. In this paper we present a new modeling methodology for representing Dynamic Structure Systems. To illustrate this methodology we describe a dynamic structure queueing system. This system dynamically changes its structure to improve performance.