Dynamic rate Erlang-A queues
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Multi-server queues; Abandonment; Dynamical systems; Asymptotics; Time-varying rates; Time-inhomogeneous Markov processes; Hermite polynomials; Fluid and diffusion limits; Skewness; Cumulant moments;All these keywords.
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