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Nearest-neighbour rules for emergency services

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Abstract

A policy for allocating each demand for an emergency service, arising within a region, to a currently available one of a set of service units, so as to minimise overall average response time, results in a straightforward generalisation of the elementary nearest-neighbour rule.

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Es wird gezeigt, daß die Zuordnung eines momentan verfügbaren Gerätes bei einer aus einer bestimmten Gegend kommenden Anforderung eines Notdienstes auf eine Verallgemeinerung der “Regel des nächsten Nachbaumes” führt, wenn die mittlere Gesamtantwortzeit minimiert werden soll.

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, B15 2TT, Birmingham, England

    R. A. Cuninghame-Green

  2. Wolverhampton Polytechnic, GB, England

    G. Harries

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Cuninghame-Green, R.A., Harries, G. Nearest-neighbour rules for emergency services. Zeitschrift für Operations Research 32, 299–306 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01920299

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