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Production lines with phase-type operation and repair times and finite buffers

TAYFUR ALTIOK Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 909, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, U.S.A
Pages 489-498 | Received 01 Nov 1985, Published online: 22 Oct 2007

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