On the introduction of an agile, temporary workforce into a tandem queueing system

DOI10.1007/S11134-005-2441-XzbMATH Open1098.90021OpenAlexW2130985728MaRDI QIDQ2494533FDOQ2494533

Authors: David L. Kaufman, Hyun-Soo Ahn, Mark E. Lewis 

Publication date: 28 June 2006

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/47647

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zbMATH Keywords

stochasticscheduling theoryqueues and service

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Stochastic scheduling theory in operations research (90B36)

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• Robustness of efficient server assignment policies to service time distributions in finite-buffered lines
• Optimal stochastic scheduling of two interconnected queues with varying service rates
• Optimal assignment of servers to tasks when collaboration is inefficient
• DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT OF DEDICATED AND FLEXIBLE SERVERS IN TANDEM LINES
• Profit maximization in flexible serial queueing networks
• Two‐class constrained optimization with applications to queueing control
• Dynamic control of a tandem system with abandonments
• Throughput maximization for two station tandem systems: a proof of the Andradóttir-Ayhan conjecture
• A linear programming based approach for composite-action Markov decision processes

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