Assessing the effects of machine breakdowns in stochastic scheduling

DOI10.1016/0167-6377(88)90056-9zbMath0665.90046MaRDI QIDQ1116880

John R. Birge, Kevin D. Glazebrook

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/27036

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic scheduling; Gittins index; renewal function; machine breakdowns; alternating renewal process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B35: Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research

90B25: Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research

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