Applied Queueing Theory

✍ Scribed by Alec M. Lee M.A. (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: Studies in Management
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Models of Queueing Processes....Pages 6-21
Models of Single-channel Processes....Pages 22-45
Multiple-channel Queueing Models....Pages 46-58
Models of Serial and Cyclic Processes....Pages 59-68
Simulation Techniques....Pages 69-80
The Nature of Operational Solutions....Pages 81-87
Three Types of Approximation....Pages 88-92
Freight Reservation Process....Pages 93-104
Airline Passenger Check-in Procedures....Pages 105-135
A Coupon Sorting Problem....Pages 136-141
Four Selected Case Histories....Pages 142-151
Passenger Air Terminal Design....Pages 152-170
Queueing Problems in a Control System....Pages 171-179
A Problem of Standards of Service....Pages 180-206
A Summing-up....Pages 207-211
Back Matter....Pages 212-244

✦ Subjects

Operation Research/Decision Theory