Overview
- Unites performance and optimization topical areas
- Includes many and varied applications from manufacturing, service, medical, and environmental applications
- Integrates transportation and material handling topics with the general queueing models
- Includes software programs for demonstration and solution
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book examines the performance and optimization of systems where queueing and congestion are important constructs. Both finite and infinite queueing systems are examined. Many examples and case studies are utilized to indicate the breadth and depth of the queueing systems and their range of applicability. Blocking of these processes is very important and the book shows how to deal with this problem in an effective way and not only compute the performance measures of throughput, cycle times, and WIP but also to optimize the resources within these systems.
The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate, graduate, and professionals and academics interested in network design, queueing performance models and their optimization. It assumes that the audience is fairly sophisticated in their mathematical understanding, although the explanations of the topics within the book are fairly detailed.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Queueing Networks
Book Subtitle: Theory ∩ Practice
Authors: J. MacGregor Smith
Series Title: Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78822-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78821-0Published: 06 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07655-9Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78822-7Published: 28 August 2018
Series ISSN: 1431-8598
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1773
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 562
Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations, 246 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Simulation and Modeling, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering