Waves in a spatial queue

Envisaging a physical queue of humans, we model a long queue by a continuous-space model in which, when a customer moves forward, they stop a random distance behind the previous customer, but do not move at all if their distance behind the previous customer is below a threshold. The latter assumptio...

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Main Author: David Aldous
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2017-05-01
Series:Stochastic Systems
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Online Access:http://www.i-journals.org/ssy/viewarticle.php?id=208&layout=abstract