Keyword: queues: applications

Found 872 papers in total
Blocking probabilities in mobile communications networks with time-varying rates and redialing subscribers
2002,
Call-blocking probabilities are among the key performance measures in mobile...
Algorithms for a facility location problem with stochastic customer demand and immobile servers
2002,
This paper studies a facility location problem with stochastic customer demand and...
A simulation study of the winter bed crisis
2001,
The winter bed crisis is a cyclical phenomenon which appears in British hospitals...
Implications of mixed exponential occupancy distributions and patient flow models for health care planning
2001,
There is considerable evidence that the distribution of the length of time that a...
Modelling hospital and social care bed occupancy and use by elderly people in an English health district
2001,
The paper confirms that exponential equations can be used to model the total system...
Modeling and analysis of multistate access to elective surgery
2001,
In this paper, we attempt to determine whether delays in scheduling operation affect...
Using a queueing model to help plan bed allocation in a department of geriatric medicine
2002,
By integrating queueing theory and compartmental models of flow we demonstrate how...
Modeling and solving the dynamic user equilibrium route and departure time choice problem in network with queues
2002,
This paper considers a simultaneous route and departure time choice equilibrium...
Supply chain modelling and its analytical evaluation
2002,
A model-based analysis of supply chains (SCs) is proposed as a means of estimating...
Discrete-time queueing systems and their application to analysis of optical-fiber communication networks
2002,
A double-bus optical-fiber communication system is studied. The request and...
An efficient algorithm for dynamic traffic equilibrium assignment with queues
2001,
This paper presents an efficient algorithm for solving the dynamic user equilibrium...
Performance analysis of parallel identical machines with a generalized shortest queue arrival mechanism
2001,
In this paper we study a production system consisting of a group of parallel machines...
Dynamic user optimal assignment with physical queues for a many-to-many OD pattern
2001,
This research extends the dynamic user optimal assignment under the point queue...
A universal procedure for capacity determination at unsignalized (priority-controlled) intersections
2001,
This paper introduces a universal procedure for calculating the capacity at...
Capacity analysis of internet servers based on log-data analysis
2002,
Due to the rapid increase in the internet traffic volume, ISPs are faced with the...
Study of freeway traffic near an off-ramp
2002,
A bottleneck with a diminished capacity is shown to have arisen on a freeway segment...
Two issues in setting call centre staffing levels
2001,
Motivated by a problem facing the Police Communication Centre in Auckland, New...
Modelling flow and jobbing shops as a queueing network for workload control
2002,
Workload control is an approach for production planning and control that attempts to...
Port partitioning and dynamic queueing for internet protocol forwarding
2002,
With the increase of internet protocol packets the performance of routers became an...
Applying queuing theory and simulation to a gold mine locomotive selection problem in Brazil
2002,
This work proposes a method to solve a locomotive selection problem in a gold mine...
Queues and hierarchies
2001,
This paper examines the optimal structure of hierarchies when workers differ in the...
Computing small-fleet aircraft availabilities including redundancy and spares
2002,
Logistics support is a key element of aircraft transportation systems. This paper is...
A simulated annealing approach to police district design
2002,
This paper considers the problem of redistricting or redrawing police command...
Waiting times at periodically switched one-way traffic lanes – a periodic, two-queue polling system with random setup times
2001,
We study vehicle waiting times at a traffic lane that is shared by traffic from two...
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