Waiting-line problems with priority assignment, and its application on hospital emergency department wait-time

The aim of this thesis is to first give a brief review of waiting line problems which often is a subject related to queueing theory. Simple counting processes such as the Poisson process and the duration of service time of each customer being exponentially distributed are often taught in a undergra...

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Main Author: Chang, Hsing-Ming
Other Authors: Fu, James C. (Statistics)
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4974