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Labor-Day Queueing in Niagara Falls<br />
Three-station T<strong>and</strong>em Network:<br />
Elevators, Coats, Boats<br />
Conceptual Fluid Model<br />
Total wait <strong>of</strong> 15 minutes<br />
from upper-right corner to boat<br />
Customers/units are modeled by fluid (continuous) flow.<br />
How? “Deterministic” constant motion<br />
Labor-day Queueing at Niagara Falls<br />
• Appropriate when predictable variability prevalent;<br />
• Useful first-order models/approximations, <strong>of</strong>ten suffice;<br />
• Rigorously justifiable via Functional Strong Laws <strong>of</strong> Large<br />
Numbers.<br />
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