We consider three attributes of an individual that are critical in determining the temporal dynamics of pandemic influenza: social activity, proneness to infection, and proneness to shed virus and spread infection. These attributes differ by individual, resulting in a heterogeneous population....

A simple modification of one equation in Larson (1990) reduces the computational complexity of the algorithm for the Queue Inference Engine (QIE) from O(N⁵) to O(N³), where N is the number of customers queued during a congestion period.

Officers in police patrol cars operate in a complex stochastic environment. In addition to handling dispatcher-assigned calls for service from the public, they patrol to pose a threat of apprehension to would-be offenders and undertake certain on-site interventions to help improve general public...

Introduction to the special issue devoted to police deployment. By publishing these four refereed papers together in one issue of Management Science, we have the dual purpose of presenting new substantive research results in an important public sector problem area and of attracting other...

The transactional data of a queueing system are the recorded times of service commencement and service completion for each customer served. With increasing use of computers to aid or even perform service one often has machine readable transactional data, but virtually no information about the...

We consider a multi-priority, N-server, Poisson arrival, nonpreemptive queue, motivated by police applications. The number of servers requested by an arrival has a known priority dependent probability distribution. All servers requested by a customer must start service simultaneously; the...

In 1974 the results of widely publicized police experiment, the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment (KCPPE), were released. The experiment generated considerable dialogue among police practitioners and researchers alike, who debated such issues as the policy implications of the research...

We model the set of tenure-track faculty members at a university as a queue, where "customers" in queue are faculty members in active careers. Arrivals to the queue are usually young, untenured assistant professors, and departures from the queue are primarily those who do not pass a promotion or...

An urban emergency service system provides mobile units (vehicles) to respond to requests for service which can occur at any time and any place throughout a city. This paper describes the common characteristics and operational problems of these systems and surveys the various methods, both...