Letter to the Editor---Replenishment Times, Service Times, and the Independence Assumption

G. Hadley and T. M. Whitin
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G. Hadley: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
T. M. Whitin: University of California, Berkeley, California

Operations Research, 1961, vol. 9, issue 1, 132-133

Abstract: A simple model illustrates the connection between the independence assumption, replenishment time, and queuing models for the case where orders are forced to conform to the proper temporal ordering scheme (i.e., orders do not cross) for the case of an exponential replenishment time distribution.

Date: 1961
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