Statistical Results on Control Variables with Application to Queueing Network Simulation

DOI10.1287/opre.30.1.182zbMath0481.90024OpenAlexW2084292686MaRDI QIDQ3939562

Stephen S. Lavenberg, Peter D. Welch, Thomas L. Moeller

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.30.1.182

zbMATH Keywords

variance reductionblockingmultiple types of customerscontrol variablesprioritiesclosed queueing networksstatistical resultsapplication to queueing network simulationestimation of optimum control coefficientsgeneration of confidence intervals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics (65C20) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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