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Continuous Time Markov Chains

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A queueing system can be described in terms of servers and a flow of clients who access servers and are served according to some pre-established rules. The clients after service can either stay in the system or leave it, also according to some established rules.

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Biagini, F., Campanino, M. (2016). Continuous Time Markov Chains. In: Elements of Probability and Statistics. UNITEXT(), vol 98. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07254-8_7

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