The Service Facility Startup and Capacity Model and its Application to the National Cranberry Case

DOI10.1287/OPRE.44.1.160MaRDI QIDQ4883210zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lode Li, Xin Wang

Publication date 21 August 1996

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.44.1.160

zbMATH Keywords

marginal analysisprocessing capacityexpected waiting, tardiness, and operating costsfinite-horizon, single-facility queueing systemoptimal starting time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25)

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