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The Effect of the Coefficient of Variation of Operation Times on the Allocation of Storage Space in Production Line Systems

FREDERICK S. HILLIER Department of Operations Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305
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KUT C. SO Graduate School of Management University of California, Irvine, CA, 92717
Pages 198-206 | Received 01 Sep 1988, Published online: 31 May 2007

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