Search Results - subject:"queueing"

Analysis of the Suez Canal blockage with queueing theory

Gast, Johannes; Binsfeld, Tom; Marsili, Francesca; … - In: Adapting to the future : how digitalization shapes …, (pp. 943-959). 2021

Queueing Theory to evaluate the efficiency of services and infrastructure. However, the literature does not use queueing models … to assess Supply Chain risk. This research introduces a queueing model to Supply Chain Risk Management to analyse the …

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Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 bed occupancy in wards and Intensive Care Units

Baas, Stef; Dijkstra, Sander; Braaksma, Aleida; Rooij, … - In: Health care management science : a new journal serving … 24 (2021) 2, pp. 402-419

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Should I wait or should I go? : travelling versus waiting for better healthcare

Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Ugolini, Cristina; Verzulli, Rossella - 2021

We study patient mobility in the Italian National Health System, using patient-episode level data on elective Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital is affected by changes in waiting times and clinical...

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Comparing scheduling appointment rules performance in health care units : a discrete event simulation approach

Klojda, Thiago Nunes; Fortuna, Antônio Pedro de Britto … - In: Problems of management in the 21st century 16 (2021) 1, pp. 28-41

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Queue configurations and servers' customer orientation : an experimental investigation

Song, Hummy; Armony, Mor; Roels, Guillaume - 2021

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Transmission of trading orders through communication line with relativistic delay

Lerner, Peter B. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 9 (2021) 1/12, pp. 1-11

The notion of "relativistic finance" became ingrained in the public imagination and has been asserted in many mass-media reports. However, despite an observed drive of the most reputable Wall Street firms to establish their servers ever closer to the trading hubs, there is surprisingly little...

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Public Health Care with Waiting Time : The Role of Supplementary Private Health Care

Hoel, Michael; Sather, Erik Magnus - 2021

We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided, and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Private health care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the public health queue. We show that although patients with low waiting costs...

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Analysis of Unreliable Jackson-Type Queueing Networks with Dynamic Routing

Kalimulina, Elmira Yu - 2021

In this paper we consider a Jackson type queueing network with unreliable nodes. The network consists of m < ∞ nodes …, each node is a queueing system of M/G/1 type. The input flow is assumed to be the Poisson process with parameter Λ(t). The …

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Optimizing Inter-Hospital Patient Transfer Decisions During a Pandemic : A Queueing Network Approach

Chan, Timothy; Pogacar, Frances; Sarhangian, Vahid; … - 2021

. Methodology/Results: We propose a queueing network model that captures the salient features of patient flow from acute wards to … by leveraging a deterministic fluid approximation of the queueing network. Using real data during the pandemic from a … network of 21 hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada, we validate our queueing model and conduct a …

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Modeling Public Transportation Networks with Queues

Bauer, Jesica; Huynh, Edward; Abe, Kuran; Tateda, Teppei; … - 2021

. This paper introduces a novel computational model adapted from standard queuing theory to allow for simulation and analysis …

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