Applied Queueing Theory (Studies in Management)

244 pp., xi. Stated: "First published 1966". Following the Foreword and Preface, Contents divided into 16 chapters: 1. "Introduction"; 2. "Models of Queueing Processes"; 3. "Models of Single-channel Processes"; 4. "Multiple-channel Queueing Models"; 5. "Models of Serial and Cyclic Processes"; 6. "Simulation Techniques"; 7. "The Nature of Operational Solutions"; 8. "Three Types of Approximations"; 9. "Freight Reservations Process"; 10. "Airline Passenger Check-in Procedures"; 11. "A Coupon Sorting Problem"; 12. "Four Selected Case Histories"; 13. "Passenger Air Terminal Design"; 14. "Queueing Problems in a Control System"; 15. "A Problem of Standards of Service"; 16. "A Summing-up"; Appendices: 1. "Notes on Sources and References"; 2. "List of Principal Symbols"; 3. Summary of Useful Charts and Formulae"; Index, pp. 242-244. NO jacket. Black boards with brilliant silver lettering on spine across top front cover; previous owner name, place and date of purchase discreetly at top left ffep, with small U. of Penn Bookstore price sticker at inside front cover bottom right, else Near Fine: strong binding (some small stretching of pages in first signature, but NO cracks, else tight); corners square (teeniest hint of curls at bottom corners); NO rubbing wear (as if a dj did its job); NO remainder marks; Some previous owner pencil markings have been erased, with very few pages with residual light indent marks, e.g., pp. 26-29 (Ch. 3) : Essentially, Clean text.…