Haryono; Sivazlian, B.D. - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 27 (1985) 4, pp. 339-364
An approximate method based on the diffusion equation is presented for analyzing a non-Markovian machine repair problem. The basic argument used in this approximation is that in the repair stage, the number of failed machines at time t, N(t), is almost always non-empty under heavy-traffic...