Applications of fluid models in service operations management

DOI10.1007/S11134-022-09868-2zbMATH Open1517.90028OpenAlexW4308456495MaRDI QIDQ6163558FDOQ6163558

Authors: Noa Zychlinski 

Publication date: 26 June 2023

Published in: Queueing Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-022-09868-2

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic analysisqueueing systemsfunctional strong law of large numbersservice/healthcare operations management

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Applications of queueing theory (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.) (60K30)

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