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 ...

We consider the Δ(i)/G/1 queue, in which a total of n customers join a single-server queue for service. Customers join the queue independently after exponential times. We a consider heavy-tailed ...

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 ...