Article ID: | iaor2005766 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 1537 |
End Page Number: | 1548 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2004 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Atencia I., Moreno P. |
Keywords: | markov processes |
The arrival of a negative customer to a queueing system causes one ordinary customer to be removed (or killed) if any is present. The arrival of a disaster, on the other hand, kills all the customers in the system if any. In this paper, we extend the queueing theory on negative arrivals and disasters to the discrete-time