This article studies the dispatch of consolidate shipments. Orders arrive to a depot at discrete time epochs following a discrete time batch Markov arrival process (BMAP). The weight of an order is measured in discrete units and may be correlated with the arrival time. As soon as the total...

Several useful point processes such as the Markovian arrival process, the input and departure processes of finite-capacity Markovian queues, and various models for counters and biological phenomena are obtained by considering Markov chains with marked transitions. This point of view yields many...