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Priority Assignment in Waiting Line Problems 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 t... ...
Tập 2 Số 1 - Trang 70-76 - 1954
Letter to the Editor—Waiting Line Subject to Priorities 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 excl... ...
Tập 2 Số 3 - Trang 341-343 - 1954