In discrete event simulation, very often the future event set is represented by a priority queue. The data structure used to implement the queue and the way operations are performed on it are often crucial to the execution time of a simulation. In this paper a new priority queue implementation strategy, the Lazy Queue, is presented. It is tailored to handle operations on the pending event set e...

In this paper, we study the performance of service systems with priority upgrades. We model the service system as a single-server two-class priority queue, with queue 1 as the normal queue and queue 2 as the priority queue. The queueing model of interest has various applications in healthcare services, perishable inventory and project management. We comprehensively examine the system’s stationa...

Two random traffic streams are competing for the service time of a single server (multiplexer). The streams form two queues, primary (queue 1) and secondary (queue 0). The primary queue is served exhaustively, after which the server switches over to queue 0. The duration of time the server resides in the secondary queue is determined by the dynamic evolution in queue 1. If there is an arrival t...

This paper presents a novel technique to derive asymptotic expressions for rare event probabilities for random walks in the quarter plane. For concreteness, we study a tandem queue with Poisson arrivals, exponential service times and coupled processors. The service rate for one queue is only a fraction of the global service rate when the other queue is non empty; when one queue is empty, the ot...

We analyse Nash equilibrium in time of use of a congested facility. Users are risk averse with general concave utility. Queues are subject to varying degrees of random sorting, ranging from strict queue priority to a completely random queue. We define the key "no residual queue" property, which holds when there is no queue at the time the last user arrives at the queue, and prove that this prop...

abstract: the main objective of this paper is to investigate the leadership style between public and private bank and its impact on the job satisfaction in iran. for this purpose, the relationship between transformation and transactional leadership and job satisfaction and the effect of managers’ decision-making strategy and employee’s job perception on it have been considered empirically. the ...

production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. one of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own cons and pros, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

A finite-buffered banyan network analysis technique designed to model networks at high traffic loads is presented. The technique specially models two states of the network queues: queue empty and queue congested (roughly, zero or one slots free). A congested queue tends to stay congested because packets bound for the queue accumulate in the previous stage. The expected duration of this state is...