Managing capacity and inventory jointly for multi-server make-to-stock queues

DOI10.1007/s11134-017-9519-0zbMath1370.60180OpenAlexW2188111963MaRDI QIDQ2397920

Bo Zhang, Josh Reed

Publication date: 14 August 2017

Published in: Queueing Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-017-9519-0

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximationmulti-server queuemake-to-stock queuejoint capacity-inventory managementmany-server asymptoticssquare-root rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Production models (90B30) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Diffusion processes (60J60) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05)

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