On pooling in queueing networks

DOI10.1287/MNSC.44.7.971MaRDI QIDQ2783999zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Avishai Mandelbaum, Martin I. Reiman

Publication date 7 August 2002

Published in Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/f733483ccc36bcc1714447e2ddadc93daed9e412

zbMATH Keywords

economics of scaleefficiencyflexible serverservice facility designservice operationsspecialized serverstability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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• Efficiency evaluation for pooling resources in health care
• The Effect of Increasing Routing Choice on Resource Pooling
• Pooling queues with strategic servers: the effects of customer ownership
• Kelly and Jackson networks with interchangeable, cooperative servers
• To pool or not to pool: queueing design for large-scale service systems
• Adaptive matching for expert systems with uncertain task types
• On the power of (even a little) resource pooling
• Multi-Actor Markov Decision Processes
• Dynamic load balancing with flexible workers
• A framework for optimal recruitment of temporary and permanent healthcare workers in highly uncertain environments
• Patient referral strategy and cost sharing for a medical consortium
• Coordinated referral and scheduling decisions for specialized healthcare services
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