Descrete Hopsital Queues
12th March 2016
As I mentioned in my last post (Infinitely Many Doctors? Hmmm...), the MRes are currently undertaking a research project into one of
the areas presented to us earlier in the term. My topic is infinite server queues and particularly looking at how they can be used within the Health Service. The
last blog was talking about queues in continuous time and went over the theory behind them as well as one application of it to A&E departments in a hospital. My
research has, however, also discovered
another strand of theory that I would like to share with you in this blog. This has mainly been pioneered by of the
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