One late Friday afternoon last month, the three-story Whole Foods Market at Union Square in New York City was, as usual, teeming with customers. To accommodate what one shopper called the “insane” ...

In its latest coronavirus safety enhancement, Smart & Final has begun implementing a single-line queuing system at checkout in its stores. Commerce, Calif.-based Smart & Final said plans call for the ...

Retrial queueing systems represent a class of models in which arriving customers, upon encountering a busy or unavailable server, enter a virtual waiting room—commonly referred to as an orbit—to ...

The Bloomberg Managed Services (BMS) group is focused on providing easy-to-adopt self-service infrastructure building blocks that the company’s thousands of application developers then rely upon to ...

Polling systems and queueing theory constitute a significant branch of applied mathematics that underpins various modern technological and industrial applications. These areas investigate systems ...