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Queues, waiting lines, congestion phenomena, stochastic service systems occur numerously both in the real world and in the professional literature. Unfortunately however, most results from the theory of queues find only limited popularity among those concerned with the understanding, design and control of real life queuing systems. Bhat [1969], Saaty [1966] and Lee [1966], among others, have discussed the nature of and the reasons for the gap between queuing theory and the handling of queuing problems in the real world.
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Bagchi, T.P., Templeton, J.G.C. (1972). Introduction. In: Numerical Methods in Markov Chains and Bulk Queues. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80712-1_1
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