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WSC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
1998
A significant challenge in implementing the Theory of Constraints in the semiconductor industry is the complex and reentrant nature of the manufacturing process. Managing a constr...
WSC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We start with basic terminology and concepts of modeling, and decompose the art of modeling as a process. This overview of the process helps clarify when we should or should not u...
IOR
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
We analyze a general market for an industry of competing service facilities. Firms differentiate themselves by their price levels and the waiting time their customers experience,...
CN
2002
13 years 7 months ago
2002
In the future, voice communication is expected to migrate from the public switched telephone network to the Internet. Because of the particular characteristics (low volume and bur...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...