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Wang, Z and Xing, W Performance of service policies in a specialized service system with parallel servers. Annals of Operations Research, 159 (1): 451-460, 2008.

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This paper considers a scheduling problem occurring in a specialized service system with parallel servers. In the system, customers are divided into the “ordinary” and “special” categories according to their service needs. Ordinary customers can be served by any server, while special customers can be served only by the flexible servers. We assume that the service time for any ordinary customer is the same and all special customers have another common service time. We analyze three classes of service policies used in practice, namely, policies with priority, policies without priority and mixed policies. The worst-case performance ratios are obtained for all of these service policies.


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@ARTICLE{2008-451-460-SI, author = {Z. Wang and W. Xing},
title = {Performance of service policies in a specialized service system with parallel servers},
journal = {Annals of Operations Research},
year = {2008},
volume = {159},
pages = {451--460},
number = {1},
note = {Selected},
abstract = {This paper considers a scheduling problem occurring in a specialized service system with parallel servers. In the system, customers are divided into the “ordinary” and “special” categories according to their service needs. Ordinary customers can be served by any server, while special customers can be served only by the flexible servers. We assume that the service time for any ordinary customer is the same and all special customers have another common service time. We analyze three classes of service policies used in practice, namely, policies with priority, policies without priority and mixed policies. The worst-case performance ratios are obtained for all of these service policies.},
doi = {10.1007/s10479-007-0264-3},
owner = {user},
timestamp = {2012.05.25} }