A surprisingly versatile result in this field, Little’s law, is the conservation of the steady-state product of entry rate and wait time per unit. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this field applied in telecommunications and manufacturing. Mean value analysis is a recursive method based on this field’s arrival theorem that computes the lengths of systems modeled by an FIFO (“F-I-F-O”) data structure.
ANSWER: queuing theory [or queueing theory; accept queues]
[10m] This developer of queuing theory studied his namesake distribution while working at Copenhagen’s telephone exchange. He names a unit of load and a process-oriented language developed for massive concurrency at Ericsson.
ANSWER: Agner Erlang [accept Erlang distribution, Erlang language, or erlang]
[10h] Give the three-factor Kendall’s notation for the elementary queue with one server, Poisson-distributed arrivals, and exponential service time.
ANSWER: M/M/1 queue
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