Ke, Jau-Chuan - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 58 (2003) 1, pp. 41-56
This paper considers a like-queue production system in which server vacations and breakdowns are possible. The decision-maker can turn a single server on at any arrival epoch or off at any service completion. We model the system by an M<Superscript>[x]</Superscript>/M/1 queueing system with N policy. The server can be...</superscript>