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On the limiting behaviour of a non-homogeneous Markovian manpower model with independent Poisson input

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

P.-C. G. Vassiliou*
Affiliation:
University of Ioannina

Abstract

We study the limiting behaviour of a manpower system where the non-homogeneous Markov chain model proposed by Young and Vassiliou (1974) is applicable. This is done in the cases where the input is a time-homogeneous and time-inhomogeneous Poisson random variable. It is also found that the number in the various grades are asymptotically mutually independent Poisson variates.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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Footnotes

This work was done while the author was at the Statistics Section, Imperial College, University of London.

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