Computationally efficient approximations for balanced flowlines with finite intermediate buffers

DOI10.1080/00207549008942719zbMath0684.90047MaRDI QIDQ4735021

A. G. de Kok

Publication date: 1990

Published in: International Journal of Production Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207549008942719

zbMATH Keywords

approximations; performance characteristics; intermediate buffers; balanced flowlines; identical workstations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60K25: Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory)

90B22: Queues and service in operations research

90B30: Production models

90B05: Inventory, storage, reservoirs

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