Abstract Many models for customers impatience in queueing systems have been studied in the past; the source of impatience has always been taken to be either a long wait already exp...
customer which exceeds its deadline will either leave the queue without service or stay in the queue to get unsucWe consider the problem of scheduling impatient CUS- cessful servic...
Zheng-Xue Zhao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Donald F. Tow...
Discrete-event dynamic systems with feedback, where the behavior of the system depends on the system state, are difficult to model due to the uncertainties and dependencies of sys...
In systems where customer service demands are only known probabilistically, there is very little to distinguish between jobs. Therefore, no universal optimum scheduling strategy o...
Sarah Tasneem, Lester Lipsky, Reda A. Ammar, Howar...