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Queuing Theory

The use of quantitative measures to balance supply and demand for services in order to minimize wait times. Queuing theory is most beneficial in retail establishments; for example, one may use it to determine how many cashiers to have at the grocery store. It is also called waiting line theory.
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This mechanism of integrating capacity among providers is known in queueing theory as "capacity pooling," which can utilize resource more efficiently and reduce patient waiting time.
The productivity and cost-efficiency of models for involving nurse practitioners in primary care: a perspective from queueing analysis
The problem of continuous packet arrivals and routing has also been a major topic of study within the field of queueing theory [Kleinrock 1975; Kelly 1979].
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Queueing theory is a well-known body of techniques and methods designed to describe the resource-sharing behavior of systems and applications with a substantial stochastic element.
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A distributed Internet system model, initially described in compliance with Queueing Theory (QT) rules, is mapped onto the Timed Coloured Petri Net (TCPN) structure by means of queueing system templates.
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Part II addresses basic queueing theory, with a focus on Markovian queueing systems and also explores advanced queueing theory, queueing networks, and approximations of queueing networks
Research and Markets: Fundamentals of Stochastic Networks - An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Queueing and Graphical Networks

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