Capacity expansion for a loss system with exponential demand growth
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Capacity expansion for a loss system with exponential demand growth
We study a loss system to forecast the demand for capacity based on the forecast demand for service and a specified service level. A little-used property of the Erlang loss formula allows the linear transformation of demand for service into demand for capacity. Next, given the forecast demand for capacity, we approximate a long run optimal capacity expansion policy by optimizing over successive...
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عنوان ژورنال: Computers & Operations Research
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0305-0548
DOI: 10.1016/s0305-0548(02)00081-3