61780 event 1286537945 1475891571 <![CDATA[Stochastics Seminar :: Tandem Lines with Dedicated and Flexible Servers]]> Consider a tandem queueing network with $Ngeq 2$ stations, $Mgeq 1$ servers, infinite supply of jobs in front of station 1, infinite room for completed jobs after station $N$, and either a finite or infinite buffer between any two consecutive stations. We study the dynamic allocation of servers to stations with the goal of maximizing the long-run average throughput, assuming that only a subset of the servers are flexible in that they are able to work at several stations, with the remaining servers being dedicated to particular stations.

Authors: Sigrun Andradottir, Hayriye Ayhan, and Douglas G. Down

]]> Barbara Christopher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
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