A single server waiting line system with Poisson arrivals and Inverse Gaussian service times has been analyzed. The same model has been analyzed by using Mukherjee-Islam (1983) model as the service time model. Inverse Gaussian model has been used in queuing theory but the Mukherjee-Islam model which is basically a failure model has been tested first time as the service time model.

175 Further Reading Bulliet, Richward W. (1979) Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period, An Essay in Quantitative History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Hodgson, Marshall G. (1974) The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lapidus, Ira M. (1988) A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University P...

Corrigendum Corrigendum to ‘‘Application of the optimal homotopy asymptotic method to squeezing flow’’ [Comput. Math. Appl. 59 (2010) 3858–3866] M. Idrees a, S. Islam b,∗, Sirajul Haq a, Siraj-ul-Islam c a Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Topi, NWFP, Pakistan b Department of Mathematics, CIIT, H-8/1, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan c NWFP University of Engineering and Technology, Pesha...

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