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Over the Internet , customers are able to perform transactions on their desktop
computers either at home or at work . The explosion of the Internet means that
many potential customers understand and use the World Wide Web . He
therefore ...
Over the Internet , customers are able to perform transactions on their desktop
computers either at home or at work . The explosion of the Internet means that
many potential customers understand and use the World Wide Web . He
therefore ...
Page 895
Consider a self-service model in which the customer is also the server. Note that
this corresponds to having an infinite number of servers available. Customers
arrive according to a Poisson process with parameter A, and service times have
an ...
Consider a self-service model in which the customer is also the server. Note that
this corresponds to having an infinite number of servers available. Customers
arrive according to a Poisson process with parameter A, and service times have
an ...
Page 904
Suppose now that type 1 customers are more important than type 2 customers. If
the queue discipline were changed from first-comefirst-served to a priority system
with type 1 customers being given nonpreemptive priority over type 2 customers ...
Suppose now that type 1 customers are more important than type 2 customers. If
the queue discipline were changed from first-comefirst-served to a priority system
with type 1 customers being given nonpreemptive priority over type 2 customers ...
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| Title | Introduction to Operations Research, Volume 1 Introduction to Operations Research, Frederick S. Hillier McGraw-Hill series in industrial engineering and management science |
| Authors | Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman |
| Edition | 7, illustrated |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2011 |
| ISBN | 0072416181, 9780072416183 |
| Length | 1214 pages |
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