Optimal Maintenance Policies for Single-Server Queueing Systems Subject to Breakdowns

DOI10.1287/opre.38.2.330zbMath0708.60084OpenAlexW1968627225MaRDI QIDQ3490730

Awi Federgruen, Kut C. So

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.38.2.330

zbMATH Keywords

semi-Markov decision processsingle-server queueing systemoptimal stationary policycharacterization of an optimal policy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40) Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10)

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