Making the customers wait: The optimal number of servers in a queueing system

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 16 - Trang 77-79 - 1994
Martin J. Beckmann1
1Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Technische Hochschule München, München, Germany

Tóm tắt

In a queueing systemM/M/c let the number of actual serversχ≤c be chosen depending on the statey (number of customers in the system). We consider an opportunity costw per server per unit of time and a waiting costh per customer per unit of time. Using Dynamic Programming the optimal policy forc=1 is found to be as follows. Use no server wheny1 under certain conditions.

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