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Ordering of Tandem Constant-Service Stations to Minimize In-Process Stock Cost

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Janice Kim Winch  and
Benjamin Avi-Itzhak
Janice Kim Winch
Affiliation:
Pace University, One Pace Plaza, New York, New York 10038
Benjamin Avi-Itzhak
Affiliation:
RUTCOR, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 5062, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903-5062
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Abstract

We study tandem ordering of constant-service stations with unlimited buffers where service at each station adds a certain value to the job. With the goal of minimizing the total expect value of the jobs in the system, we provide conditions under which some particular orderings are optimal and describe a heuristic that finds a near-optimal order for stations of arbitrary service lengths and added values.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 457 - 473
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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