Article ID: | iaor20083375 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 477 |
End Page Number: | 484 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2007 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Karaesmen Fikri, Akin O. Zeynep |
The objective is to identify preferred flexibility structures in service or manufacturing systems, when demand is random and capacity is finite. Considering a network flow type model as the basis of the analysis, general structural properties of flexibility design pertaining to the marginal values of flexibility and capacity are identified.