This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper generalizes the M/G/1 queuing process by considering both the arrival and the service rates as being essentially arbitrary ...

Joost Vles is an adjunct instructor of management at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York Warning: After reading this article, you will never again stand in a line without ...

This paper aims at showing that for the discrete time analogue of the M/G/1 queueing model with service in random order and with a traffic intensity ρ > 0, the condition ρ < ∞ is sufficient in order ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A new Cornell University study uses queuing theory to examine how often pairs of shoppers might overlap in a supermarket – an approach that could be used to predict the transmission of ...