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CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
On stars and Steiner stars. II
A Steiner star for a set P of n points in Rd connects an arbitrary center point to all points of P, while a star connects a point p P to the remaining n-1 points of P. All connec...
Adrian Dumitrescu, Csaba D. Tóth, Guangwu X...
CORR
2007
Springer
126views Education» more  CORR 2007»
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Decentralized sequential change detection using physical layer fusion
— We study the problem of decentralized sequential change detection with conditionally independent observations. The sensors form a star topology with a central node called fusio...
Leena Zacharias, Rajesh Sundaresan
PE
2006
Springer
125views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Approximating multi-skill blocking systems by HyperExponential Decomposition
We consider multi-class blocking systems in which jobs require a single processing step. There are groups of servers that can each serve a different subset of all job classes. The...
Geert Jan Franx, Ger Koole, Auke Pot
TELSYS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
The Analysis of Queues with Time-Varying Rates for Telecommunication Models
Abstract. Time dependent behavior has an impact on the performance of telecommunication models. Examples include: staffing a call center, pricing the inventory of private line serv...
William A. Massey
QUESTA
2007
111views more  QUESTA 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Queues with system disasters and impatient customers when system is down
Consider a system (e.g. a computer farm or a call center) operating as a M/M/c queue, where c = 1, or 1 < c < ∞, or c = ∞. The system as a whole suffers disastrous break...
Uri Yechiali