Overview
- Presents material in a more logical order than existing texts
- End of chapter exercises and online solutions manual
- Text is classroom tested?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 191)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Queueing theory (the mathematical theory of waiting lines in all its configurations) continues to be a standard major area of operations research on the stochastic side. Therefore, universities with an active program in operations research sometimes will have an entire course devoted mainly or entirely to queueing theory, and the course is also taught in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and industrial engineering programs.
The basic course in queueing theory is often taught at first year graduate level, though can be taught at senior level undergraduate as well. This text evolved from the author’s preferred syllabus for teaching the course, presenting the material in a more logical order than other texts and so being more effective in teaching the basics of queueing theory.
The first three chapters focus on the needed preliminaries, including exposition distributions, Poisson processes and generating functions, renewal theory, and Markov chains, Then, rather than switching to first-come first-served memoryless queues here as most texts do, Haviv discusses the M/G/1 model instead of the M/M/1, and then covers priority queues. Later chapters cover the G/M/1 model, thirteen examples of continuous-time Markov processes, open networks of memoryless queues and closed networks, queueing regimes with insensitive parameters, and then concludes with two-dimensional queueing models which are quasi birth and death processes. Each chapter ends with exercises.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Queues
Book Subtitle: A Course in Queueing Theory
Authors: Moshe Haviv
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6765-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6764-9Published: 21 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0113-5Published: 17 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6765-6Published: 20 May 2013
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 221
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics