“We can use some fancy math to predict how long the line will get,” Keely Croxton of Ohio State says, then apply it to related problems. In response to a listener request, “Marketplace” host Kai ...

Queueing theory provides a robust mathematical framework for analysing waiting lines, a critical aspect across sectors ranging from telecommunications and healthcare to manufacturing and ...

Queueing theory is a mathematical study of waiting lines or queues used to model a wide array of practical systems such as call centres, manufacturing lines, computer networks and healthcare ...

Queueing theory rules everything around you. This newest version of our highly accessible, 30-page introduction to queueing theory demystifies the subject without requiring pages full of equations.

Are checkout lines slowing you down this holiday season? With some simple queueing theory stores could could make lines more efficient, saving themselves money, and ...

Ever since Google announced that access to its then-new email application Gmail would be invite-only at first, startup founders have been angling to reproduce that same kind of fervor for their own ...

The purpose of the course is to present some of the classical results in queueing theory, mainly in the analysis of single-server queues and Markovian (reversible) stochastic networks. Another goal is ...

Using queueing theory and the fast Fourier transform, we develop a new approach to analyzing the diversity paths of fossil taxa. The methods employed focus on calculating the probabilities, for each ...

Estimates indicate that Americans spend roughly 37 billion hours per year waiting in lines. And, the average consumer can spend up to two years waiting in lines! Recently, the TSA has made headlines ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper considers a fixed-cycle and a semi vehicular-actuated traffic light queue with strictly stationary arrivals and independent and ...