Article ID: | iaor20022562 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 7 |
Start Page Number: | 638 |
End Page Number: | 651 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2001 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Katayama Tsuyoshi |
We consider a single-queue with exhaustive or gated time-limited services and server vacations, in which the length of each service period at the queue is controlled by a timer, i.e., the server serves customers until the timer expires or the queue becomes empty, whichever occurs first, and then takes vacations. The customer whose service is interrupted due to the timer expiration may be attended according to nonpreemptive or preemptive service disciplines. For the