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    Queuing Problem of a Bank

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    Queuing problem of a Bank Ⅰ Introduction& problem definition The queue phenomenon in the banking offices is either a normal or a boring issue that should be solved properly in order to keep the clientele resources. The student always lined up in school campus bank. It is a familiar phenomenon in PolyU daily. In operational research‚ the queuing theory is a very popular topic. It is widely used in some industries‚ such as computer network‚ logistics industry etc.(Wikipedia‚ 2013). There is a series

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    Computer Simulation: Gambling is known to be a vice of many men. An activity that requires one to bet their cold hard cash that they earned through their jobs and to bet it all on a luck and the slim chance that they would somehow beat the odds and receive what they had betted and much more. Gambling has been proven to stimulate the brains reward system that similar to how drugs and alcohol stimulate the brains reward system. But dabbling in such activities‚ such as gambling with cards and dice‚

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    MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF COMBINED DISCRETE/CONTINUOUS PROCESSES by Paul Inigo Barton‚ M.Eng‚ A.C.G.I. May 1992 A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of London and for the Diploma of Membership of the Imperial College Department of Chemical Engineering Imperial College of Science‚ Technology and Medicine London SW7 2BY To Amy 2 Abstract Currently available dynamic simulation packages are mainly suitable for the continuous simulation of large

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    Advantages: >Computer simulation can allow you to see how a system might respond before you design or modify it. This avoids mistakes and one can try different ideas before the real product is produced‚ making it cheaper as there is no need to make different prototypes every time and testing them out. Example: It is safer and cheaper to use a model and simulation for some real world objects such as nuclear power plants. >It is an advantage to find this out in a model rather than testing the real

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    Queuing Up

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    Long Queuing Time Pepper lunch restaurant is famous for providing hot‚ fast and delicious food to customers. It attracts many people to visit‚ no matter in peak hours or off peak hours. However Pepper Lunch Restaurant have a poor queuing for customers to buy their wanted dishes. According a servey‚ a customers said that when he buying a meal‚ he counted from queuing to get a meal on the get dishes area‚ it takes around 45minutes in peak hour while it takes at least 15 minutes in off peak hours.

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    Effects of Using Computers

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    Effects of Computer Use on High School Students’ Sense of Community MERVYN J. WIGHTING Regent University‚ Virginia ABSTRACT The author used a mixed-method design to determine whether and how use of computers in the classroom affects sense of learning in a community among high school students (N = 181). The results indicate that using computers in the classroom positively affects students’ sense of learning in a community. Analyses revealed that students believed that connectedness with their

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    Advantages of Using Computers Computers obviously wouldn’t be as popular as they are now if they did not offer advantages over doing tasks manually. Some of these advantages are: Computers can perform calculations much more quickly and accurately than humans. For example‚ modern computers can perform hundreds of millions of calculations per second. Large amounts of data can be stored in a small amount of space. For example‚ hundreds of pages worth of text can be stored on a 31⁄2inch floppy

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    including Microsoft Windows‚ various versions of UNIX‚ Linux‚ and Mac OS X. LabVIEW programs/subroutines are called virtual instruments (VIs). Each VI has three components: a block diagram‚ a front panel and a connector panel. The front panel is built using controls and indicators. Controls are inputs – they allow a user to supply information to the VI. Indicators are outputs – they indicate‚ or display‚ the results based on the inputs given to the VI. The block diagram contains the graphical source

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    Emergency Departments (EDs) are a vital hub in the health care system as they handle acute injuries and illness‚ particularly if the patient’s physician is unavailable at the time. Additionally‚ EDs are also key gateways in the admission to hospitals with 60 percent of admissions to hospitals taking place through EDs. Because of the integral role played by emergency departments in hospitals‚ challenges in the other departments may also significantly affect the operations of the EDs. Thus‚ due to

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    Queuing Problems

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    one gas pump employs the following policy: if a customer has to wait‚ the price is $3.50 per gallon; if they don’t have to wait‚ the price is $4.00 per gallon. Customers arrive according to a Poisson process with a mean rate of 20 per hour. Service times at the pump have an exponential distribution with a mean of 2 minutes. Arriving customers always wait until they can by gasoline. Determine the expected price of gasoline per gallon. Problem 3 The Old Colony theme park has a new ride‚ the Double-Disgusting

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