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Queuing theory is the mathematical analysis of waiting in line. The line might involve data waiting for processing, equipment parts waiting in an assembly line or people waiting in line at various ...

“We can use some fancy math to predict how long the line will get,” Keely Croxton of Ohio State says, then apply it to related problems. In response to a listener request, “Marketplace” host Kai ...

The study of how systems with limited resources distribute those resources to elements waiting in line, and how those elements respond. Examples include data traversing computer networks, phone calls ...

I was at the store the other day to pick up a few items. I found what I wanted and walked to the front checkout counters. There I found a long line of people waiting to be checked out. I had spent a ...

You’ve probably participated in this familiar dance: Given a choice of checkout lines, you’ve somehow picked the slowest. You could wait it out. You could chassé to another queue. Or you could bail ...

Waiting in line isthe single biggest source of consumer frustration, says New York retailing expert Paco Underhill. North Americans have a clock in their heads set to three minutes, andbeyond that ...