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Excerpt from Dynamic Scheduling of a Multiclass Make-to-Stock Queue The goal of this paper is to investigate the scheduling problem faced by a single machine, make-to - stock production facility in a dynamic stochastic environment. This facility is pictured in Figure 1, where it is assumed that there is an ample amount of raw material inventory of product k, for k 1, K. The scheduler decides when to release a raw product k job onto the shop oor, at which time the job becomes a unit of product k work-in-process (wip) inventory. These decisions will be referred to as release decisions. There is a single machine that transforms units of product k wip inventory into units of product k finished goods inventory. The machine is modeled as a multiclass queue, in that the machine may work on only one unit at a time, and each product has its own general processing time distribution. Demand for each product can be any arbitrary point process that satisfies a functional central limit theorem (for example, a compound Poisson process). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.