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Kendall's notation: a standalone construct

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Operations research

a shorthand for classifying queues by arrival process, service distribution and number of servers.

In operations research, Kendall's notation refers to a shorthand for classifying queues by arrival process, service distribution and number of servers. This meaning comes from Kendall (1953) in The Annals of Mathematical Statistics.[1]

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References

  1. Kendall, D. G. (1953). Stochastic Processes Occurring in the Theory of Queues and their Analysis by the Method of the Imbedded Markov Chain. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 24(3), 338-354. https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177728975

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