Computing the Expected Cost of an Appointment Schedule for Statistically Identical Customers with Probabilistic Service Times

A cogent method is presented for computing the expected cost of an appointment schedule where customers are statistically identical, the service time distribution has known mean and variance, and customer no-shows occur with time-dependent probability. The approach is computationally efficient and c...

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Autor principal: Dennis C. Dietz
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Colecção:The Scientific World Journal
Acesso em linha:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/949726