A Stochastic Service Network Model with Application to Hospital Facilities

DOI10.1287/OPRE.29.1.1MaRDI QIDQ3899804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

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

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

stochastic environmentsemi-Markov processhealth 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

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

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