It is readily apparent how important the Internet is to modern life. The exponential growth in its use requires good tools for analyzing congestion. Much has been written recently...
Martin J. Fischer, Denise M. Bevilacqua Masi, Dona...
We analyze a general market for an industry of competing service facilities. Firms differentiate themselves by their price levels and the waiting time their customers experience,...
This paper considers an M/G/1 queue in which service time distributions in each busy period change according to a finite state Markov chain, embedded at the arrival instants of cu...
— We evaluate the average waiting time between observing the price of financial markets and the next price change, especially in an on-line foreign exchange trading service for ...
The continuing explosive growth of the web has not been matched by an adequate enhancement of the infrastructure on which it depends. Both consumers and producers are often left f...