We study in this paper a social welfare optimal congestion-pricing scheme for multiclass queuing services which can be applied to telecommunication networks. Most of the literature has focused on the marginal price. Unfortunately, it does not share the total cost among the different classes. We...

In this paper we consider the control of a complex network of servers through which many types of jobs flow, where we assume that servers require a setup time when changing between types. Such networks can be used to model complex communication, traffic or manufacturing systems. Instead of...

We consider a Jackson-type network comprised of two queues having state-dependent service rates, in which the queue lengths evolve periodically, exhibiting noisy cycles. To reduce this noise a certain heuristic, utilizing regions in the phase space in which the system behaves almost...

We consider a Jackson-type network comprised of two queues having state-dependent service rates, in which the queue lengths evolve periodically, exhibiting noisy cycles. To reduce this noise a certain heuristic, utilizing regions in the phase space in which the system behaves almost...

We study self-interested routing in stochastic networks, taking into account the discrete stochastic dynamics of such networks. We analyze a two-station multiclass queueing network in which the system manager chooses the scheduling rule and individual customers choose routes in a self-interested...

In this paper we investigate a relatively simple deterministic four-class two-queue multiclass open network of single-server FIFO queues with traffic intensity one at each queue. Our purpose is to better understand the effect of feedback with class-dependent service times at the queues. The...

Reducing manufacturing lead times and minimizing work-in-process (WIP) inventories are the cornerstones of popular manufacturing strategies such as Lean, Quick Response, and Just-in-Time Manufacturing. In this paper, we present a model that captures the relationshipbetween facility layout and...

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