Operations Research Center Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Transitive Packing: A Unifying Concept in Combinatorial Optimization 

      Schulz, Andreas S.; Müller, Rudolf (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1999-10)
      This paper attempts to give a better understanding of the facial structure of previously separately investigated polyhedra. It introduces the notion of transitive packing and the transitive packing polytope. Polytopes that ...

    • Fluid and Diffusion Approximations of a Two-Station Mixed Queueing Network 

      Nguyen, Viên (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1993-01)
      The subject of this paper is a two-station mixed queueing network with two customer types: "Open" customers enter the network at station 1 and depart the system after receiving service. Meanwhile, a fixed number of "closed" ...

    • On the Convergence of Multiclass Queueing Networks in Heavy Traffic 

      Dai, I. G.; Nguyen, Viên (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center, 1992-10)
      The subject of this paper is the heavy traffic behavior of a general class of queueing networks with first-in-first-out (FIFO) service discipline. For special cases which require various assumptions on the network structure, ...