Service system design with immobile servers, stochastic demand and concave-cost capacity selection

DOI10.1016/J.COR.2018.01.019MaRDI QIDQ1652604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samir Elhedhli, Yan Wang, Ahmed Saif

Publication date 11 July 2018

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2018.01.019

zbMATH Keywords

second-order cone programmingLagrangian relaxationservice system design\(M/M/1\)economies-of-scalespecial order sets of type 2 (SOS2)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Semidefinite programming (90C22) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Applications of queueing theory (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.) (60K30)

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