Boston / Baltimore / New York / Copenhagen / London / Longton / /
Company
Queueing Networks / John Hopkins University Press / Kendall / J Jorgenson & Co. / Oxford University Press / John Wiley & Sons Inc. / Suez / Bell Laboratories / Ansell / Operational Research Society Ltd. / /
Country
Netherlands / United Kingdom / /
Currency
pence / / /
Facility
D Worthington∗ Lancaster University / Keele University / Lancaster University / Suez Canal / Channel Tunnel / building The Pollaczek / /
IndustryTerm
freight services / infinite server / stochastic systems / outpatient appointment systems / multi-node systems / real applications / timedependent solutions / communication systems / manufacturing systems / airline industry / singleserver systems / infinite server systems / main numerical solution / coal-face machinery / time-dependent solutions / healthcare / simulation software / multi-server systems / nonexponential systems / airline passenger check-in / real-life systems / food / real-life management / closed-form mathematical solution / transient solution / potential applications / product-form solutions / hospital appointment systems / manufacturing context blocking / closed queue networks / priority systems / exponential systems / cargo handling equipment / ambulance services / equivalent steady-state systems / exact and approximate product-form solutions / telecommunications / office processing / product-form solution / continuoustime systems / speed computer networks / time-varying systems / airline passenger check-in. / early telecommunications work / ambulance systems / healthcare queue modelling / appointment systems / coal mining / numerical solutions / numerical solution / /
NaturalFeature
Suez Canal / /
Organization
Lancaster University / Suez Canal Authority / Operational Research Society / United Nations / Keele University / Oxford University / Department of Management Science / NHS / /
Person
Ellis Horwood / Ann Opns Res / /
Position
model for call centre queue management / operational researcher / manager / manager in the possibility / manager of a queueing system / queue manager / analyst / applied researcher / /
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