"THE BEHA VIOR OF QUEUES is strongly affected by the distribution -of successive arrival times of customers as well as customer servicing times. In classical theory of queues, it used to be assumed that each distribution depends on exponential law, in which case the mathematical treatment is the easiest. For instance we can find the probability of queue lengths at counters in an ergodic case (o...

Along with increasing the warranty period for complex systems, reducing the warranty servicing costs has become an issue of great importance to the manufacturers. One possible way to reduce the expected warranty servicing cost is by making sound decision on the product warranty and maintenance strategies. Therefore, warranties (basic warranty and extended warranty) and maintenance (corrective a...

We consider the problem of servicing a number of objects in a discrete time environment. In each period, we may select an object that will receive a service in the period. Each time an object is serviced, we incur a servicing cost dependent on the time since the object’s last service. Problems of this type appear in many contexts, e.g., multiproduct lot-sizing, machine maintenance, and several ...

A warranty policy for a product should balance the interests of both producer and consumer. Consumer protection is typically provided by a guarantee of replacement or some form of repair of the product failing within a promised warranty period, while an approach to provide a corresponding protection for the manufacturer is to limit the maximum usage allowed under warranty. Such warranty policie...

This paper empirically examines the extent to which the FDI – trade relationship is affected by host-country heterogeneities associated with the development (income) and market servicing roles of Japanese FDI host countries. Using the counts and values of Japanese aggregate FDI and trade flows into more than 100 geographically and developmentally diverse countries, it is shown that Japanese FDI...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a machine for servicing a large number of BrainFuck execution instances. The design includes the BrainFuck manycore processor and the software daemon that manages the execution instances on the processor. The BrainFuck manycore processor is a 256 core processor implementing a slightly modified version of BrainFuck as its ISA. Each core is im...

The problem of minimum-fuel, time-fixed, low-thrust rendezvous is addressed with the particular aim of developing a solver to determine optimal low-thrust Peer-to-Peer (P2P) maneuvers, which will be an integral part of distributed lowthrust servicing missions for multiple satellites. We develop the solver based on an indirect optimization technique and utilize the well-known shooting method to ...