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In this paper, we examine a class of nonlinear, stochastic knapsack problems which occur in manufacturing, facility or other network design applications.Series, merge-and-split topologies of series-parallelM/M/1/K andM/M/C/K queueing networks with an overall buffer constraint bound are examined. Bounds on the objective function are proposed and a sensitivity analysis is utilized to quantify the effects of buffer variations on network performance measures.
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Smith, J.M., Chikhale, N. Buffer allocation for a class of nonlinear stochastic knapsack problems. Ann Oper Res 58, 323–360 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02038860
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