European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and its Applications

The QPA (Queuing Performance and Analysis) Open Problem Session

The Open Problem Session is an informal seminar that is held on a tri-monthly basis. The purpose of this meeting is to allow researchers to share open problems with colleagues with the goal of facilitating discussion and joint work. Typically a session consists of two 20 minute presentations, each followed by a 10 minute discussion.

2009 Sessions:

April	Michel Mandjes	The area swept under the workload curve
	Cagdas Büyükkaramikli	Design problems of queuing systems with single and batch arrivals in time varying environments.
June	Ivo Adan	Job dispatching for straddle carriers
	Yoni Nazarathy	Some problems related to the covariance structure of single server queues
September	Maria Vlasiou	Lindley-type connections between warehouding and independent sets in random graphs
	Jan Tijmen Udding	Problems related to straddle carriers
December	Liqiang Liu	Compact Picking Systems
	Bert Zwart	Are symmetric queues only quasi-reversible or is there more to it

Call for Speakers:

Why present at the EURANDOM QPA Open Problem Session:

Working on a stochastic or related problem? Stuck with a hole in a proof? Believe that others may shed some light on the problem? Looking for an additional partner? Or maybe making progress on this problem but believe that there are several other related problems which others may work on? Also, perhaps there is some fascinating phenomena, observed numerically or by simulation which requires theoretical understanding? Or perhaps a “killer application” in mind with some related problems. If so, don’t hesitate and present the problem at the Open Problem Session.

Organizer:

Yoni Nazarathy

    P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
tel. +31 40 2478100 fax +31 40 2478190
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