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A ‘queue’ is a waiting line of units demanding service at a service facility (counter); the unit demanding service is called the ‘customer’ and the device at which or the person by whom it gets served is known as the ‘server’. This terminology is used in a wide context. Here are a few realistic examples of this customer — server mechanism.
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Bhat, U.N. (1968). Introduction. In: A Study of the Queueing Systems M/G/1 and GI/M/1. Lecture Notes in Operations Research and Mathematical Economics, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46136-1_1
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