Monotone Control of Queueing and Production/Inventory Systems

Weber and Stidham (1987) used submodularity to establish transition monotonicity (a service completion at one station cannot reduce the service rate at another station) for Markovian queueing networks that meet certain regularity conditions and are controlled to minimize service and queueing costs....

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Main Authors: Veatch, Michael H., Wein, Lawrence M.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5312