Control of a Single-Server Tandem Queueing System with Setups

DOI10.1287/opre.46.2.218zbMath0979.90031OpenAlexW2109752811MaRDI QIDQ2770084

Diwakar Gupta, Tava Lennon Olsen, Izak Duenyas

Publication date: 7 February 2002

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.46.2.218

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson processMarkov-decision processsingle-server tandem queueing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40) Applications of queueing theory (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.) (60K30)

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