Author: Gordon Frank NewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queuing theory
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Approximate Behavior of Tandem Queues
Author: Gordon Frank NewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queuing theory
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Approximate Behavior of Tandem Queues
Author: Gordon Frank NewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queuing theory
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Stochastic Models in Operations Research
Author: Daniel P. HeymanPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486432595
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This volume of a 2-volume set explores the central facts and ideas of stochastic processes, illustrating their use in models based on applied and theoretical investigations. Explores stochastic processes, operating characteristics of stochastic systems, and stochastic optimization. Comprehensive in its scope, this graduate-level text emphasizes the practical importance, intellectual stimulation, and mathematical elegance of stochastic models.
Structured Stochastic Matrices of M/G/1 Type and Their Applications
Author: Marcel F. NeutsPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000147576
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This book deals with Markov chains and Markov renewal processes (M/G/1 type). It discusses numerical difficulties which are apparently inherent in the classical analysis of a variety of stochastic models by methods of complex analysis.
Advances in Queueing Theory, Methods, and Open Problems
Author: Jewgeni H. DshalalowPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000949931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The progress of science and technology has placed Queueing Theory among the most popular disciplines in applied mathematics, operations research, and engineering. Although queueing has been on the scientific market since the beginning of this century, it is still rapidly expanding by capturing new areas in technology. Advances in Queueing provides a comprehensive overview of problems in this enormous area of science and focuses on the most significant methods recently developed. Written by a team of 24 eminent scientists, the book examines stochastic, analytic, and generic methods such as approximations, estimates and bounds, and simulation. The first chapter presents an overview of classical queueing methods from the birth of queues to the seventies. It also contains the most comprehensive bibliography of books on queueing and telecommunications to date. Each of the following chapters surveys recent methods applied to classes of queueing systems and networks followed by a discussion of open problems and future research directions. Advances in Queueing is a practical reference that allows the reader quick access to the latest methods.
Capacity Oriented Analysis and Design of Production Systems
Author: M.B.M. de KosterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642516661
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In production systems there are often capacity oriented performance objectives, like a desired total throughput, a desired average throughput time and average work in-process. Such performance objectives are expressed in "units of products" rather than in specific product types. This book presents a way of modeling and analyzing production systems so, that such capacity oriented performance criteria can be measured in a simple way. The model consists of three basic elements. 1. The product types in the system are aggregated. 2. The product flow is modeled as being continuous. 3. The machines in the model have a finite number of states. Each state has a phase-type sojourn distribution and an associated production speed. Transitions between the states are determined by an irreducible Markov transition matrix. In the book both the mathematical properties and the practical applicabilities of the model are investigated. The model is extensively analyzed for various layouts, like flow lines, assembly disassembly systems and networks where parallel machines share common buffers. Furthermore various ways of controlling the product flow in the model are investigated, such as Base Stock Control, Workload Control, control by finite buffers and control by the Reorder Point System. An approximation technique is developed for a quick estimation of performance measures like throughput and average work-in-process, for networks with layouts and control techniques like those above-mentioned.
Applications of Queueing Theory
Author: C. NewellPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400959702
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The literature on queueing theory is already very large. It contains more than a dozen books and about a thousand papers devoted exclusively to the subject; plus many other books on probability theory or operations research in which queueing theory is discussed. Despite this tremendous activity, queueing theory, as a tool for analysis of practical problems, remains in a primitive state; perhaps mostly because the theory has been motivated only superficially by its potential applications. People have devoted great efforts to solving the 'wrong problems. ' Queueing theory originated as a very practical subject. Much ofthe early work was motivated by problems concerning telephone traffic. Erlang, in particular, made many important contributions to the subject in the early part of this century. Telephone traffic remained one of the principle applications until about 1950. After World War II, activity in the fields of operations research and probability theory grew rapidly. Queueing theory became very popular, particularly in the late 1950s, but its popularity did not center so much around its applications as around its mathematical aspects. With the refine ment of some clever mathematical tricks, it became clear that exact solutions could be found for a large number of mathematical problems associated with models of queueing phenomena. The literature grew from 'solutions looking for a problem' rather than from 'problems looking for a solution.
Bayesian Full Information Analysis of Simultaneous Equation Models Using Integration by Monte Carlo
Author: L. BauwensPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642455786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
In their review of the "Bayesian analysis of simultaneous equation systems", Dr~ze and Richard (1983) - hereafter DR - express the following viewpoint about the present state of development of the Bayesian full information analysis of such sys tems i) the method allows "a flexible specification of the prior density, including well defined noninformative prior measures"; ii) it yields "exact finite sample posterior and predictive densities". However, they call for further developments so that these densities can be eval uated through 'numerical methods, using an integrated software packa~e. To that end, they recommend the use of a Monte Carlo technique, since van Dijk and Kloek (1980) have demonstrated that "the integrations can be done and how they are done". In this monograph, we explain how we contribute to achieve the developments suggested by Dr~ze and Richard. A basic idea is to use known properties of the porterior density of the param eters of the structural form to design the importance functions, i. e. approximations of the posterior density, that are needed for organizing the integrations.
Naval Research Logistics Quarterly
Author: Optimization, Parallel Processing and Applications
Author: Alexander KurzhanskiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642466311
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This volume contains selected papers presented either at the Oberwolfach Conference on Operations Research, February 1987, or at the three-day workshop on Advanced Computation Techniques, Parallel Processing and Optimization organized by IIASA and the University of Karlsruhe, which immediately followed. The aim of the conferences was to discuss recently developed methods in optimization theory and their practical implementation using advanced computation techniques, especially in parallel processing. The volume is divided into five sections: I. Algorithms and Optimization Methods II. Optimization and Parallel Processing III. Graph Theory and Scheduling IV. Differential Equations and Operator Theory V. Applications.