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Priority Assignment in Waiting Line Problems
Tập 2 Số 1 - Trang 70-76 - 1954
There are several commonly occurring situations in which the position of a unit
or member of a waiting line is determined by a priority assigned to the unit
rather than by its time of arrival in the line. An example is the line formed by
messages awaiting transmission over a crowded communication channel in which
urgent messages may take precedence over routine ones. With the passage of time
a giv...
Letter to the Editor—Waiting Line Subject to Priorities
Tập 2 Số 3 - Trang 341-343 - 1954
In his article, “Priority Assignment In Waiting Line Problems,” (Cobham, J.
Opns. Res. Soc. Am. 2, 70 (1954).) Alan Cobham obtained very interesting and
valuable waiting-time formulas both for single- and multiple-channel systems.
His reasoning is similar in the two cases, but it is given in detail for the
single-channel case, and for definiteness the ensuing remarks will be directed
exclusively t...