Article ID: | iaor2000545 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 7 |
Start Page Number: | 971 |
End Page Number: | 981 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Reiman Martin I., Mandelbaum Avishai |
Keywords: | service |
We view each station in a Jackson network as a queue of tasks, of a particular type, which are to be processed by the associated specialized server. A complete pooling of queues, into a single queue, and servers, into a single server, gives rise to an