DocumentCode
2845362
Title
An entropy approach to queueing control
Author
Phillis, Yannis A. ; Kouikoglou, Vassilis S.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Production Eng. & Manage., Tech. Univ. Crete, Chania, Greece
Volume
4
fYear
1995
fDate
13-15 Dec 1995
Firstpage
3644
Abstract
The problems of scheduling and routing of customers in queueing systems are examined from the point of view of entropy which is a measure of uncertainty in the context of the random experiment at hand. Two principles are developed, one of the maximum rate of entropy reduction which is equivalent to maximum speed of order in the system and one of minimum entropy which is equivalent to minimum uncertainty. The resulting controls are straightforward and easy to apply
Keywords
maximum entropy methods; minimum entropy methods; queueing theory; scheduling; customer routing; customer scheduling; maximum entropy reduction rate; minimum entropy; queueing control; uncertainty; Control systems; Costs; Dynamic programming; Engineering management; Entropy; Length measurement; Measurement uncertainty; Production engineering; Routing; Velocity measurement;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Decision and Control, 1995., Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
New Orleans, LA
ISSN
0191-2216
Print_ISBN
0-7803-2685-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CDC.1995.479155
Filename
479155
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