“We can use some fancy math to predict how long the line will get,” Keely Croxton of Ohio State says, then apply it to related problems. In response to a listener request, “Marketplace” host Kai ...

Queueing theory rules everything around you. This newest version of our highly accessible, 30-page introduction to queueing theory demystifies the subject without requiring pages full of equations.

You run into the grocery store to quickly pick up one ingredient. You grab what you need and head to the front of the store. After quickly sizing up the check-out lines, you choose the one that looks ...

Queueing theory is a mathematical study of waiting lines or queues used to model a wide array of practical systems such as call centres, manufacturing lines, computer networks and healthcare ...

Performance analysis of queueing networks is one of the most challenging areas of queueing theory. Barring very specialized models such as product-form type queueing networks, there exist very few ...

We’ve all been there. While grasping a stack of toilet paper and a carton of milk in the grocery store’s express lane, you glance to your right and see that other customers with cart-loads of produce ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Operations Research & Analytics. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. The course covers theory including the ...

The behavior of a uniformly sampled queueing system is characterized and interpreted using a time series approach. The advantages of employing time series to obtain a model of the queue's behavior are ...