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On a Conjecture of Koole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Alfred Müller
Affiliation:
Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie und Operations Research, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstr, 12, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany

Abstract

In this short note, we give a counterexample to a conjecture of Koole (1995, Stochastic scheduling and dynamic programming) concerning the equivalence of two orderings arising in the context of a customer assignment model with asymmetric service times.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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References

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