On Two Cyclic Exponential Machines Sharing a Common Tool Magazine

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1987

Publication Title

American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences

Abstract

A new class of optimization problems arising in modeling a system with two machines (or servers) sharing a common tool magazine was recently proposed. In this paper, we assume that the machines in the system require the tools according to a given permutation (order) and discuss a number of simplifications in the model leading to interesting results and also to a (conjectured) lower bound on the total proportion of idle time of the machines.

Volume

7

Issue

Issue 3-4

First Page

205

Last Page

232

DOI

10.1080/01966324.1987.10737219

ISSN

Print ISSN: 0196-6324 Online ISSN: 2325-8454

Rights

© 1987 Taylor & Francis

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