A Stochastic Service Network Model with Application to Hospital Facilities

DOI10.1287/opre.29.1.1zbMath0452.90028DBLPjournals/ior/HersheyWC81OpenAlexW2071957121WikidataQ77478722 ScholiaQ77478722MaRDI QIDQ3899804

Morris A. Cohen, Elliott N. Weiss, John C. Hershey

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.29.1.1

zbMATH Keywords

semi-Markov processstochastic environmenthealth and care managementErlang's loss formulaapplication to hospital facilitiescapacity constrained service network facilitiesestimation of expected service levelexpected utilization estimationflows of customersnetwork of service unitsstochastic service network model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Operations research and management science (90B99)

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