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- Title
Turning Off a Server with Customers Present: Is This Any Way to Run an M/M/c Queue with Removable Servers?
- Authors
Bell, Colin E.
- Abstract
The form of optimal policy is investigated in an average cost, infinite horizon M/M/c problem where the number of servers working can be adjusted at arrival or service completion epochs. The costs considered are linear holding costs, linear servers' wages and set-up (shut-down) charges per server turned on (off). We show that an optimal policy may call for turning one or more servers off even when there are customers for him to serve.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL costs; MATHEMATICAL optimization; CONSUMERS; ECONOMETRIC models; GOPHER servers; WAGES; INCOME; LATHES; INDUSTRIAL engineering
- Publication
Operations Research, 1975, Vol 23, Issue 3, p571
- ISSN
0030-364X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/opre.23.3.571