The optimality of balancing workloads in certain types of flexible manufacturing systems

Symmetric mathematical programming is used to analyze the optimality of balancing workloads to maximize the expected production in a single-server closed queuing network model of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). In particular, using generalized concavity we prove that, even though the production function is not concave, balancing workloads maximizes the expected production in certain types of m-machine FMS's with n parts in the system. Our results are compared and contrasted with previous models of production systems.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25713/1/0000270.pd

A modelling approach to the evalution of computer system performance

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