{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2014648367","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07408170008967447","title":"Strongly asymptotically optimal design and control of production and service systems","display_name":"Strongly asymptotically optimal design and control of production and service systems","publication_year":2000,"publication_date":"2000-09-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2014648367","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07408170008967447","mag":"2014648367"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1080/07408170008967447","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07408170008967447","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07408170008967447","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S63835026","display_name":"IIE Transactions","issn_l":"0740-817X","issn":["0740-817X","1545-8830"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","jufo-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320547","host_organization_name":"Taylor & Francis","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320547","https://openalex.org/P4310320449"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Taylor & Francis","Informa"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IIE Transactions","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5009275623","display_name":"Jeyaveerasingam George Shanthikumar","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7345-4674","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7345-4674","https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9970-191X"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I95457486","display_name":"University of California, Berkeley","ror":"https://ror.org/01an7q238","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I95457486"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"J. GEORGE SHANTHIKUMAR","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Walter A. Hass School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA E-mail: E-mail: shanthikumar@ieor.berkeley.edu","Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Walter A. Hass School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Walter A. Hass School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA E-mail: E-mail: shanthikumar@ieor.berkeley.edu","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I95457486"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Walter A. Hass School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I95457486"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5109267622","display_name":"Susan H. Xu","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I130769515","display_name":"Pennsylvania State University","ror":"https://ror.org/04p491231","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I130769515"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"SUSAN H. XU","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Management Science and Information Systems, College of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA E-mail: E-mail: shx@psu.edu","Department of Management Science and Information Systems, College of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Management Science and Information Systems, College of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA E-mail: E-mail: shx@psu.edu","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I130769515"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Management Science and Information Systems, College of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I130769515"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.7181,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":13,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.80165712,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":96},"biblio":{"volume":"32","issue":"9","first_page":"881","last_page":"890"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10974","display_name":"Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis","score":0.9990000128746033,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1404","display_name":"Management Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/14","display_name":"Business, Management and Accounting"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10974","display_name":"Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis","score":0.9990000128746033,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1404","display_name":"Management Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/14","display_name":"Business, Management and Accounting"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13553","display_name":"Age of Information Optimization","score":9.999999747378752e-05,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11773","display_name":"Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization","score":9.999999747378752e-05,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3604","display_name":"Emergency Medical Services"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/36","display_name":"Health Professions"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/workload-distribution","display_name":"workload distribution","score":0.796999990940094},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/jackson-networks","display_name":"Jackson networks","score":0.5410000085830688},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/holding-cost-minimization","display_name":"holding cost minimization","score":0.8659999966621399},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/index-policies","display_name":"index policies","score":0.7419999837875366}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778348673","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739302","display_name":"Production (economics)","level":2,"score":0.6186094284057617},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.438005656003952},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780378061","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25351891","display_name":"Service (business)","level":2,"score":0.4347933530807495},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.33565956354141235},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C21547014","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1423657","display_name":"Operations management","level":1,"score":0.3213768005371094},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.3061205744743347},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.2572164535522461},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144133560","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4830453","display_name":"Business","level":0,"score":0.25311893224716187},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C175444787","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39072","display_name":"Microeconomics","level":1,"score":0.15844032168388367},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162853370","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39809","display_name":"Marketing","level":1,"score":0.13162511587142944}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1080/07408170008967447","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07408170008967447","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07408170008967447","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S63835026","display_name":"IIE Transactions","issn_l":"0740-817X","issn":["0740-817X","1545-8830"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","jufo-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320547","host_organization_name":"Taylor & Francis","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320547","https://openalex.org/P4310320449"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Taylor & Francis","Informa"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IIE Transactions","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":26,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1513232863","https://openalex.org/W1573744394","https://openalex.org/W1580825473","https://openalex.org/W1974927663","https://openalex.org/W1980082730","https://openalex.org/W1994045590","https://openalex.org/W1994330137","https://openalex.org/W2000022994","https://openalex.org/W2000288008","https://openalex.org/W2005098937","https://openalex.org/W2007179872","https://openalex.org/W2013683781","https://openalex.org/W2016798673","https://openalex.org/W2023993182","https://openalex.org/W2030582898","https://openalex.org/W2039719565","https://openalex.org/W2052086843","https://openalex.org/W2053778610","https://openalex.org/W2059442555","https://openalex.org/W2076283767","https://openalex.org/W2076341142","https://openalex.org/W2131876345","https://openalex.org/W2326154390","https://openalex.org/W2328198806","https://openalex.org/W2334142543","https://openalex.org/W2402140087"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1983147661","https://openalex.org/W2096031889","https://openalex.org/W7098706096","https://openalex.org/W2522104164","https://openalex.org/W2035138111","https://openalex.org/W2116763096","https://openalex.org/W1972019724","https://openalex.org/W4408078210","https://openalex.org/W2086743794","https://openalex.org/W3103538498"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"In":[0,63],"this":[1,189],"paper":[2],"we":[3,65],"consider":[4],"production":[5],"and":[6,33,50],"service":[7,77,143,161,172],"systems":[8],"that":[9,101,125,178],"can":[10],"be":[11],"modeled":[12,79],"as":[13,193],"single":[14,140],"or":[15],"multiple":[16,75,159],"stage":[17,141],"queueing":[18,37],"networks.":[19],"We":[20,39,56,123,145],"provide":[21],"a":[22,41,67,74,139,148,158],"formal":[23],"definition":[24],"of":[25,31,35,118,153,155,170],"strong":[26],"asymptotic":[27],"optimalityin":[28],"the":[29,81,91,102,115,121,134,167],"context":[30],"design":[32,49],"control":[34,51,136],"such":[36],"systems.":[38,55],"describe":[40],"simple":[42,97],"approach":[43,59],"to":[44,89,157,174],"obtain":[45,66,147],"strongly":[46,68,130,149],"asymptotically":[47,69,111,131,150],"optimal":[48,70,112,132,151],"policies":[52],"for":[53,73,113,133,185],"these":[54],"illustrate":[57],"our":[58],"through":[60],"some":[61],"examples.":[62],"particular":[64],"workload":[71,106],"allocation":[72,107,152,164],"center":[76,160],"system":[78],"by":[80],"open":[82],"Jackson":[83],"network.":[84],"The":[85],"objective":[86],"here":[87],"is":[88,108,129],"minimize":[90],"expected":[92,116],"total":[93],"holding":[94],"cost.":[95],"A":[96],"counter":[98],"example":[99],"shows":[100],"much":[103],"celebrated":[104],"balanced":[105],"not":[109],"even":[110],"minimizing":[114],"number":[117],"jobs":[119],"in":[120,138,181],"system.":[122,144,162],"show":[124],"an":[126],"index":[127],"policy":[128],"scheduling":[135],"problem":[137],"(G/GI/1)":[142],"also":[146],"classes":[154],"customers":[156],"This":[163],"agrees":[165],"with":[166],"traditional":[168],"wisdom":[169],"forming":[171],"stations":[173],"process":[175],"similar":[176],"tasks":[177],"reduce":[179],"fluctuations":[180],"processing":[182],"times.":[183],"Suggestions":[184],"further":[186],"work":[187],"on":[188],"topic":[190],"are":[191],"summarized":[192],"well.":[194]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-10-13T10:08:12.033832","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}