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Models of flexible manufacturing systems with limited local buffers

DAVID D. YAO Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA
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J. A. BUZACOTT Department of Management Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
Pages 107-117 | Received 01 Apr 1985, Published online: 22 Oct 2007

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