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Introduction to the Use of Queueing Theory and Simulation

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Queueing theory can be used to provide information about systems that can be represented by a queue/server or by series of queues/servers enabling queueing theory results to provide a means of estimating the expected performance of a manufacturing system.

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Lowndes, V., Berry, S. (2017). Introduction to the Use of Queueing Theory and Simulation. In: Berry, S., Lowndes, V., Trovati, M. (eds) Guide to Computational Modelling for Decision Processes. Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55417-4_5

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