A Little Flexibility Is All You Need: On the Asymptotic Value of Flexible Capacity in Parallel Queuing Systems

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  2012

• Venue

  Operational Research

• Publication date

  2012-11-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/opre.1120.1107
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