Currently, manufacturing is characterized by increasing complexity both on the technical and organizational levels. Thus, more complex intelligent production control methods are developed in order to remain competitive achieve operational excellence. Operations management described early influence among target metrics, such as queuing times, queue length, speed. However, accurate predictions of...

In the Operations Research queue-joining literature, beginning with Naor (1969), the queue joining probability is monotonic decreasing in the queue length; the longer the queue, the fewer consumers join. Recent academic and empirical evidence indicates that queue-joining probabilities may not always be decreasing in the queue length. We provide a simple explanation for these non-monotonic queue...

This paper deals with machine repair problem with balking and reneging. There is provision of mixed standby (warm and cold) components to replace the failed machines. The lifetime and repair time are assumed to have exponential distribution. Birth-death technique is suggested to obtain the queue size distribution in explicit form. A repair facility of C permanent repairmen is facilitated to rep...

Inspired by the need for efficient traffic control in urban areas, we study the problem of minimizing the longest queue length in traffic networks. In our model cars only move forward and do not overtake each other and time is divided in rounds of a given length. Cars always cross intersections when they have the green signal and they are at the front of the queue, otherwise they wait. Each car...

We revisit the random-access-machine model in which the input is given on a read-only random-access media, the output is to be produced to a write-only sequential-access media, and in addition there is a limited random-access workspace. The length of the input is N elements, the length of the output is limited by the computation itself, and the capacity of the workspace is O(S + w) bits, where ...

The successful operation of the present Internet depends mainly upon TCP/IP which employs end-to-end congestion control mechanisms built in the end hosts. In order to further enhance this paradigm of end-to-end control the Random Early Detection algorithm has been proposed, which starts to mark or drop packets at the onset of congestion. The paper addresses issues related to the choice of queue...