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A Comparison of the Multiple Dispatch and M/M/c Priority Queueing Models of Police Patrol

Green, Linda; Kolesar, Peter - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 6, pp. 665-670

In many cities, a substantial fraction of calls for police service require more than one patrol car. We compare Green's multiple dispatch queueing model to several M/M/c-based approximations for multiple car dispatching that are obtained by adjusting the parameters. We found that none of the...

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A Multiple Dispatch Queueing Model of Police Patrol Operations

Green, Linda - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 6, pp. 653-664

paper describes a model that has been developed to represent patrol car operations more accurately. It is a multi-priority …

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The Feasibility of One-Officer Patrol in New York City

Green, Linda; Kolesar, Peter - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 8, pp. 964-981

call priority queueing model. It is shown that a one-officer patrol program is feasible, yet pitfalls exist which could …

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Note---On Anomalies in Dynamic Ratio Type Scheduling Rules: A Clarifying Analysis

Kanet, John J. - In: Management Science 28 (1982) 11, pp. 1337-1341

Adam and Surkis (Adam, N. R., J. Surkis. 1980. Priority update intervals and anomalies in dynamic ratio type job shop …

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Priority Update Intervals and Anomalies in Dynamic Ratio Type Job Shop Scheduling Rules

Adam, Nabil R.; Surkis, Julius - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 12, pp. 1227-1237

Dynamic priority dispatching rules in job shops require the computation of all job priorities in a work center queue … every time a machine in the work center becomes idle. This is extremely costly. Alternative priority update procedures are … priority rules is also studied; a simple modification to remove the anomaly is suggested and the performances of the "old" and …

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Bankruptcy Law

White, Michelle J. - In: Handbook of Law and Economics

Bankruptcy is the legal process whereby financially distressed firms, individuals, and occasionally governments resolve their debts. The bankruptcy process for firms plays a central role in economics, because competition drives inefficient firms out of business, thereby raising the average...

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Investment policy modernization of regional development

Anatolievna, Artashina Irina (contributor); … - Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and …

organization and methodical ways of its modernization including priority investment projects, public-private partnership projects …

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PROJECT SELECTION HANDBOOK FOR DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: LIMPOPO PROVINCE

Jenkins, Glenn Paul; Klevchuk, Andrey - Economics Department, Queen's University

high priority by the National and Provincial authorities in order to eradicate illiteracy and to step up the scope and … can be maximized when the funds are allocated for school construction and/or rehabilitation according to a priority index. …

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