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Hsu, Lie-Fern; Tapiero, Charles S.; Lin, Cinho. Network of queues modeling in flexible manufacturing systems : a survey. RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Tome 27 (1993) no. 2, pp. 201-248. http://www.numdam.org/item/RO_1993__27_2_201_0/
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