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This Queueing Theory News web page contains information on Queueing Theory collected by Dr. Myron Hlynka, of the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. For any additions or corrections, please contact Dr. Hlynka at hlynka@uwindsor.ca
URL is http://web2.uwindsor.ca/math/hlynka/queue.html
Last update: September 1, 2009.

NEWS

September 15-18, 2010. 7th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2010 Contributions in the area of queueing are in the scope of the conference. http://www.qest.org/qest2010/
July 27-29, 2010. We are happy to announce the organization of the 8th International Workshop on Retrial Queues (8th WRQ) to be held in Beijing, July 27-29, 2010. This meeting will be the 8th in a series of workshops scoping to promote research and encourage interaction in the community of retrial queues. Note that the 8th WRQ Website is below:
http://8thwrq.ie.tsinghua.edu.cn
June 28- July 1, 2010.
Third Madrid Conference on Queueing Theory will be held in Toledo, Spain.
Information is available at
http://www.mat.ucm.es/~mcqt/confe10/conf10.html
June 7-9, 2010. StochMod10: 3rd Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Modeling.
Nafplion, Greece.
"The meeting has a strong queueing component."
http://www.math.uoa.gr/stochmod10
November 19-21, 2009
YEQT-III (Young European Queueing Theorists) "Scheduling and Resource Sharing in Queueing Networks"
http://www.eurandom.nl/events/workshops/2009/YEQTIII
September 8, 2009. Marvin Mandelbaum (York University, Toronto) passed away at age 68. He co-developed (with his M.Sc. supervisor Benajmin Avi-Itzhak) the concept of split and match queues in 1968. He developed the concept of flexibility in manufacturing systems. Brill and Mandelbaum extended the concepts of flexibility from manufucturing systems to queueing systems. Marvin organized the CanQueue 2003 conference at the Fields Institute in Toronto.
August 31, 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS
Quality Technology & Quantitative Management:
Special Issue on "Management Policies of Queueing Control"
Control of Queues is one of the most significant area of research. It is customary to classify models in to two general categories: descriptive and prescriptive models. Descriptive models are model which describe some current real-world situations, while prescriptive models are models which prescribe what the real-world situation should be, that is, the optimal behavior at which to aim. The development of queueing theory is primarily dominated by descriptive models. Some attention has been given nonetheless to optimization. The research in control and optimal operation of queueing systems is centered around optimal design and control of a model with cost structure. The decision variables considered are arrival and service parameters, queue parameters, operating time parameters; the objective functions considered are concerned with average or discounted costs. The purpose of this special issue is to provide researchers and practitioners an opportunity to share the most recent advances in the area of control of queues. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following
· Optimal control problem of the queueing systems (such as N-policy, T-policy, D-policy, F-policy, Q-policy etc. )
· Comparison of systems operating under different policies.
· Stochastic decomposition properties related to optimal control policies.
· Problems related to combined threshold policies.
· Applications and case studies.
This volume will aim at high quality, thoroughly refereed papers dealing with optimal design and control of queues. Of particular interest will be papers developing new algorithm related to cost structures which has potential application in real-world management problems.
Authors should prepare their manuscripts in Microsoft word or TeX/LaTeX and send the electronic file ( in PDF format ) to either of the Guest Editors. Generally the size of a manuscript should not exceed 15 printed pages. Submitted papers should not have previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Refereeing and the selection of papers will be carried out according to the standard of QTQM journal. For more information regarding the preparation of the manuscript, please visit the journal website at
http://www.cc.nctu.edu.tw/~qtqm/
Submission deadline: August 31, 2009.
Guest Editors:
Gautam Choudhury
Mathematical Sciences Division, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Paschim Boragaon, Garchuk,Guwahati 781035, Assam,India
e-mail: choudhuryg@yahoo.com
and
Lotfi Tadj
Department of Statistics and Operations Research, King Kas University P.O.Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, SAUDI ARABIA
e-mail: ltadj@aud.edu
and
Jau Chuan Ke
Department of Applied Statistics,National Taichung Institute of Technology No.129, Section-3, Sanmin Road,Taichung-404, Taiwan, R.O.C.
e-mail: jauchuan@ntit.edu
August 30, 2009. Yukio Hatoyama is named as Japan's new Prime Minister. He has a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford under the direction of Gerald Lieberman. His dissertation (1976) was titled "MARKOV MAINTENANCE MODELS WITH REPAIR." He is the author of at least one queueing article "Markov Maintenance Models and Control of Queue" (1977, Journal of the Operations Society of Japan).
http://nels.nii.ac.jp/els/110001183991.pdf?id=ART0001514931&type=pdf&lang=en&host=cinii&order_no=&ppv_type=0&lang_sw=&no=1252153511&cp=
August 27-28, 2009. CanQueue 2009 was held in Windsor, Ontario. See
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/math/hlynka/canqueue2009.html
The chair was Dr. Myron Hlynka, hlynka@uwindsor.ca
July 29-31, 2009. Prof YC Tay (NUS) and Prof John Lui co-chaired the 4th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications held in Singapore:
http://www.qtna2009.org/
July 23, 2009.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Volume on POLLING SYSTEMS in the journal ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH.
Scope
This special volume on polling systems is directed at both academicians and practitioners. Topics of interest include - but are not limited to - the following: Submissions procedure:
Please find complete submission instructions at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/anor/
When requested to select an article type, please select "S.I.: Polling Systems".
Special issue editors Important dates
Submission deadline: December 1, 2009.
Final version due: August 1, 2010
Publication: Papers will be published online very soon after acceptance.
For additional details, see
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/math/hlynka/CFP_final.pdf
June 18, 2009. This following book will be published within the next three months.
Q.L. Li (2009). Constructive Computation in Stochastic Models with Applications: The RG-Factorizations, Springer, 650 pages.
June 15, 2009. ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Frank Kelly of the University of Cambridge as the recipient of the 2009 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory and optimization of stochastic networks and their applications to computer and communication systems. Frank Kelly is Professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the University of Cambridge, and Master of Christ's College. His main research interests are in random processes, networks and optimization. He is especially interested in applications to the design and control of networks and to the understanding of self-regulation in large-scale systems.
June 2, 2009. The University of Haifa awarded an honorary doctorate to Prof. Onno J. Boxma on June 2, 2009, for his scientific achievements and "breakthroughs in the fields of applied probability and statistics". On this occasion, the University of Haifa and the Technion/–Isrel Institute of Technology–held a two-day workshop on Queueing Systems and Related Topics. The workshop featured invited lectures by international and Israeli researchers.
April 12, 2009. For informaton on the book "Level Crossing Methods in Stochastic Models" (2008) by Brill, go to
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/math/hlynka/brillbook.html
April 11, 2009. From J. Medhi. "The 3rd edition of my Stochastic Processes has appeared." A quote from Marcel Neuts: "Professor Medhi`s book belongs on the desk, rather than on the shelf, of every person who uses probability in his or her job."
About the third edition: "The current 3rd edition (2009) further updates the material and references and adds new chapters on Martingales and Simulation" For details, search under "Medhi" at
http://www.newagepublishers.com
April 1, 2009. Erlang Conference centennial.
http://www.erlang100.dk/
February 6, 2009. The winner of the 2009 ORBEL Award is Arnaud Vandaele for his thesis Measures of congestion in container terminals.
December, 2008. Sunil Kumar is the new APS (Applied Probability Society) chair. Congratulations, Sunil.
December, 2008. From the Minutes of the Applied Probability Society's Business Meeting in Washington, DC, October 13, 2008.
Bert Zwart is the recipient of the 2008 Applied Probability Society Erlang Prize. Congratulations Bert!
http://www.cwi.nl/en/BertZwartreceivesErlangPrize
November 23, 2008. Obituary.
WORMLEIGHTON, Ralph Suddenly at home on Nov. 23, 2008 in his 88th year. Dr. Wormleighton, a six year WWII vet, was a statistician, lecturer, advisor and administrator at U of Toronto for over 30 years. In 1965, he published a paper
R Wormleighton, "Queues at a Fixed Time Traffic Signal. with Periodic Random Input", CORS Journal, Vol. 3,. No. 3, 1965, pp. 129-141.
October 8, 2008.
Call for papers: 100 years of queueing - The Erlang centennial.

In 1909 A.K. Erlang published his paper "The theory of probabilities and telephone conversations" (Nyt Tidsskrift for Matematik B, Vol. 20), which may be considered to be the first publication in queueing theory. To celebrate the centennial of queueing theory, a conference "100 years of queueing -- The Erlang centennial" will be organized in Copenhagen, on April 1-3, 2009. The journal Queueing Systems shall devote a special issue to the papers that will be presented at this conference. The editors of the special issue are Soren Asmussen and Onno Boxma.

At the conference, there are 9 invited talks, by: Francois Baccelli, Sem Borst, Serguei Foss, Peter Glynn, Frank Kelly, John Kingman, Sean Meyn, Peter Taylor, and Ward Whitt.

The conference program allows for about 20 other lectures. If you are interested in presenting a paper at the conference, then please submit it via the website of Queueing Systems (http://ques.edmgr.com); please indicate that the paper is intended for the Erlang centennial conference. Papers on any aspect of queueing theory and its applications are welcome. Papers should be at most 20 double-spaced pages long. The program committee that will handle the submitted papers consists of the members of the editorial board of Queueing Systems.
Important dates:
Deadline for submission: December 1, 2008.
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2009.
Conference dates: April 1-3, 2009.
Final paper version due: August 1, 2009.

For local information, please consult the website http://www.erlang100.dk , or Villy Baek Iversen (vbiv@fotonik.dtu.dk). For questions about the special issue, please contact Onno Boxma (boxma@win.tue.nl).
October 4, 2008. Queueing theorist Susan Albin has been elected president of INFORMS. Congratulations!
September 8, 2008.
Call for Papers.
Wireless communication systems are already exploiting powerful multiple antenna technologies based on the principles of MIMO (multiple input multiple output) communication. By now, the principles of single user MIMO communication links are well understood. The next generation of systems, though, will use more advanced MIMO communication strategies that support multiuser MIMO. Multiple user communication with MIMO is more challenging than single user MIMO due to the additional degrees of freedom entailed by suppressing, cancelling, or avoiding interference. For example, limited signalling algorithms that are used to quantize channel state information at the receiver and send this information back to the transmitter(s) or relay(s) become more complex, since they need much higher resolution to achieve similar performance as their single-user counterparts. Consequently, advances in limited signaling communication are still required to make multiuser MIMO viable in next-generatio! n systems..
This has motivated advanced research in the Network of Excellence Newcom++, which supports this Special Issue..
Although using multiuser MIMO within individual cells has considerable potential, even larger performance gains can be achieved by using multi user MIMO across cooperative base stations. In the ideal case with perfect cooperation across all cells, the set of all base station antennas can be thought of as a single, distributed antenna array. Significant gains can also be achieved by some level of local coordination: for example, neighboring base stations might jointly choose beamforming directions in order to achieve interference alignment. In this general setting, there are fundamental challenges associated with transceiver design, limited channel information, and cooperative mechanisms..
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:.
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Due December 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews March 1, 2009
Publication Date June 1, 2009

Guest Editors
August 27-29, 2008. The Canqueue 2008 conference was held in Ottawa, Canada. see
http://www.math.carleton.ca/CanQueue-08/
for abstracts. The conference was very successful and the hosts at Carleton University did a wonderful job. Thanks to Minyi Huang and Yiqiang Zhao of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University.
August 4, 2008. At a press conference, it was announced that K.C.Das Commerce College Educational and Cultural Trust ( a Trust of a Premier Institution of Guwahati,Assam State ,India) has decided to start a NATIONAL TEACHER AWARD (on All India Basis) from 2008 on. The TRUST has selected the eminent scholar and queueing theorist Dr. Jyotiprasad MEDHI for the first award. The Trust also declares that the Award will be conferred on September 5 , which is observed in INDIA as a TEACHER DAY. Congratulations!!! August 1, 2008. New book! The latest edition of Gross, Shortle, Thompson, and Harris' "Fundamentals of Queueing Theory" is now available. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. 2008. 536 Pages, Hardcover.
For more information see
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jshortle/fqt4th.html
July 5, 2008. New Book. Maury Bramson. 2008. Stability of Queueing Networks. Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2008, VIII, 190 p. 20 illus., Softcover. ISBN: 978-3-540-68895-2
http://www.springer.com/math/probability/book/978-3-540-68895-2
I have not seen the book, only the ad. If someone has seen it and would like to write a review, I would be happy to post the review. (MH)
June 30, 2008. New book.
Introduction to Probability with R. By Kenneth Baclawski. See website
http://www.stochas.org/
Book Review: I like this book a lot. It is a great book for those who want to learn R and for those who want to improve their abilities in R. As far as the probability part, it is introductory (as in the title), and calculus based, with not much statistics (estimation and testing). The author uses classic examples, which I like (horse kicks in the Prussian army, the secretary problem, ...). The web site list all the R programs in the book. Look and learn.
No queueing in the book, but I would be happy to have a student who learned from this book first. (MH)
June 11-14, 2008.
The Sixth International Conference on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models (MAM6)
Beijing, P. R. China.
http://mam6.industrialengineering.dal.ca/
See conference list below.
May 17, 2008. The former server for Myron Hlynka's queueing web sites seems to have disappeared or is under long term repair. As a result, the queueing web sites have moved to this new location. Please update your links and bookmarks.
May 1, 2008. New Book! Percy Brill's new book "Level Crossing Methods in Stochastic Models Series" Springer International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Vol. 123, 2008, 477 p. 106 illustrations, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-387-09420-5, should be available within a few months. See
http://www.springer.com/math/book/978-0-387-09420-5
May 1, 2008. New book! The latest edition of Gross, Shortle, Thompson, and Harris' "Fundamentals of Queueing Theory" should be available in a few months. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. 2008. 536 Pages, Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0-471-79127-X ISBN-13: 978-0-471-79127-0
Details at
http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/books/bySubjectST00/ISBN0-471-79127-X/?sID=
March 6, 2008. Christopher C. Heyde, a prominent professor of statistics and probability at Columbia and the Australian National University died on March 6, 2008.
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/misc-pages/Chris.html
February 28, 2008. New book!.
RETRIAL QUEUEING SYSTEMS: A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
Artalejo, Jesus R., Gómez-Corral, A.
2008, Springer ISBN: 978-3-540-78724-2
Details are available at the following website:
http://www.springer.com/math/applications/book/978-3-540-78724-2
Sept. 27, 2006. There is a Table of Contents for all (except the most recent) volumes of QUESTA at
http://wotan.liu.edu/docis/dbl/quesys/index.html
August 30 - 31, 2007. CanQueue 2007 (The 9-th Annual conference for Canadian Queueing Theorists and Practitioners) took place at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

UPCOMING QUEUEING CONFERENCES

  1. June 11-14, 2008.
    The Sixth International Conference on Matrix-Analytic Methods in Stochastic Models (MAM6)
    Beijing, P. R. China.
    Conference Co-Chairs
    Qi-Ming HE, Dalhousie University, Canada
    Hanqin Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
    Program Co-Chairs
    Tetsuya Takine, Osaka University, Japan
    Peter Taylor, Melbourne University, Australia
    Temporary conference website: http://mam6.industrialengineering.dal.ca/
    Queries should be addressed to mam6@dal.ca.
  2. June 23-28, 2008.
    Stochastic Networks 2008.
    Paris, France.
    Conference Website:
    http://www.liafa.jussieu.fr/~gmerlet/StochasticNetworks/
    We are pleased to inform that the eighth international Conference on Stochastic Networks will be held June 23-28, 2008 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm, Paris 5-ième. This conference will continue a tradition of similar meetings held over the last 20 years, starting with the one organized by Peter Glynn and Tom Kurtz in Madison in 1987, continuing with conferences in Minneapolis, Edinburgh, Madison, Stanford, Montréal and Urbana-Champaign. These meetings have brought together mathematicians and applied researchers who share an interest in stochastic network models.
    Like its predecessors, the 2008 Stochastic Networks Conference will emphasize new stochastic network models structures and new mathematical problems that are motivated by contemporary developments in wireless networks, Internet, biology, manufacturing, etc.
    There will be twenty invited talks over a six-day period (Monday through Saturday), with plenty of time in the interstices for informal discussions. In addition, there will be a poster session for contributed papers.
    ************* Invited Speakers *************
    D. Aldous (Berkeley), C. Bordenave (Toulouse), A. Budhiraja (North-Carolina), T. Dieker (IBM), S. Foss (Heriot-Watt), P.R. Kumar (Urbana-Champaign), T. Kurtz (Wisconsin), M. Mandjes (Amsterdam), J. Martin (Oxford), L. Massoulie (Thomson), D. McDonald (Ottawa), A. Montanari (Stanford), N. O'Connell (Warwick), L. Popovic (Concordia), A. Proutiere (Microsoft), K. Ramanan (Brown), D. Shah (MIT), S. Stolyar (Lucent), R. Williams (San-Diego), A. Zeevi (Columbia).

  3. July 17-19, 2008.
    7th International Workshop on Retrial Queues (7th WRQ)
    University of Athens, Greece, July 17 to July 19, 2008.
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    This meeting will be the 7th in a series of workshops scoping to promote research and encourage interaction in the community of retrial queues. Applied Probabilists, Operation Researchers, Engineers, Computer Scientists and Statisticians with a main or side interest in queueing are very welcome. The scope of the conference includes both theoretical papers with advances in mathematical techniques that can be usuful for analysing retrial queueing models as well as applications of retrial queueing systems. More specifically, the topics of the 7th WRQ include but are not limited to
    * analytical techniques
    * computational methods
    * optimization
    * control
    * statistical inference
    * applications of retrial queues.
    Program Committee:
    A. Economou (University of Athens, Greece), Chairman
    J.R. Artalejo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Co-chairman
    A.N. Dudin (Belarus State University, Belarus)
    A. Gomez-Corral (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
    A. Krishnamoorthy (Cochin University of Science and Technology, India)
    Q-L. Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
    R.D. Nobel (Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    Y.W. Shin (Changwon National University, Korea)
    Preliminary information about the conference can be found at
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    http://users.uoa.gr/~aeconom/7thWRQ_Initial.html
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    For further information, please contact Stella Kapodistria (secretary) at stellakap@math.uoa.gr or Antonis Economou (chairman) at aeconom@math.uoa.gr
  4. AUGUST 28-30, 2008. CanQueue. Canadian Queueing Conference. Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
    http://www.math.carleton.ca/CanQueue-08/
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