Technical Note—Turning Off a Server with Customers Present: Is This Any Way to Run an M/M/c Queue with Removable Servers?

DOI10.1287/OPRE.23.3.571MaRDI QIDQ4054485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Colin E. Bell

Publication date 1975

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.23.3.571

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25)

Cited in

(5)

• Optimal staffing for ticket queues
• Optimal switching on and off the entire service capacity of a parallel queue
• Flexible hiring in a make to order system with parallel processing units
• Numerical optimization of a queueing system by dynamic programming
• An analysis of queueing systems with multi-task servers.

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