Analysis of an unobservable queue using arrival and departure times

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 842-847

  Park, Jinsoo ^a   Kim, Yun B ^a   Willemain, Thomas R ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Queue inference; Queueing

Indexed keywords

BUSY PERIOD; DEPARTURE TIME; FIRST-COME-FIRST-SERVED; HISTORICAL DATA; INTERNAL OPERATIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; QUEUE DELAYS; QUEUE INFERENCE; QUEUEING; QUEUEING SYSTEM; SERVICE TIME; UNOBSERVABLE;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 80053180823     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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