%0 Journal Article
%T Optimal design of a bulk service queue
%A Bounkhel
%A Messaoud
%A Tadj
%A Lotfi
%J Investiga£¿£¿o Operacional
%D 2007
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this paper uses a control-theoretic approach, the so-called predictive control, for the optimal design of a single-server, finite capacity, bulk-service queueing system. the problem is presented as an optimal control problem with one state vector variable and one control variable. the optimal service rate is obtained explicitly under a general quadratic cost function. illustrative numerical examples are presented and the effect of the initial state distribution on the shape of the optimal solution is demonstrated.
%K queue
%K optimal control
%K predictive control
%K optimal design.
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