{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2082263963","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.40.3.s217","title":"Deducing Queueing from Transactional Data: The Queue Inference Engine, Revisited","display_name":"Deducing Queueing from Transactional Data: The Queue Inference Engine, Revisited","publication_year":1992,"publication_date":"1992-06-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2082263963","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.40.3.s217","mag":"2082263963"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1287/opre.40.3.s217","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.40.3.s217","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.40.3.s217","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S125775545","display_name":"Operations Research","issn_l":"0030-364X","issn":["0030-364X","1526-5463"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a-star","anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","fnege-1-star","ft50","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","utd24","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315699","host_organization_name":"Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315699"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Operations Research","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5190","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5025940525","display_name":"Dimitris Bertsimas","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-1003","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-1003"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I63966007","display_name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/042nb2s44","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I63966007"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Dimitris J. Bertsimas","raw_affiliation_strings":["Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I63966007"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5111878729","display_name":"L. D. Servi","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2652-6023","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2652-6023"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4388891836","display_name":"GTE (United States)","ror":"https://ror.org/03ek3rf92","country_code":"US","type":"company","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4388891836"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"L. D. Servi","raw_affiliation_strings":["GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, Waltham, Massachusetts"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, Waltham, Massachusetts","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4388891836"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":4.0067,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":46,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.93655237,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":97},"biblio":{"volume":"40","issue":"3-supplement-2","first_page":"S217","last_page":"S228"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10974","display_name":"Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis","score":0.9990000128746033,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1404","display_name":"Management Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/14","display_name":"Business, Management and Accounting"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10974","display_name":"Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis","score":0.9990000128746033,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1404","display_name":"Management Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/14","display_name":"Business, Management and Accounting"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13500","display_name":"Probability and Statistical Research","score":9.999999747378752e-05,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2613","display_name":"Statistics and Probability"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/26","display_name":"Mathematics"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13553","display_name":"Age of Information Optimization","score":0.0,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/busy-season","display_name":"busy period","score":0.8289999961853027},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/transaction-data","display_name":"transaction data","score":0.7549999952316284},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/waiting-time","display_name":"waiting time","score":0.6700000166893005}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C100906024","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205692","display_name":"Poisson distribution","level":2,"score":0.6788614988327026},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.6401357650756836},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C160403385","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220543","display_name":"Queue","level":2,"score":0.5973349213600159},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C22684755","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q847526","display_name":"Queueing theory","level":2,"score":0.5364834070205688},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C11413529","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8366","display_name":"Algorithm","level":1,"score":0.5021474361419678},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C87950461","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4996486","display_name":"Bulk queue","level":3,"score":0.45397403836250305},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C66295387","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4998912","display_name":"Burke's theorem","level":5,"score":0.4458667039871216},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C198352243","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37105","display_name":"Line (geometry)","level":2,"score":0.43089157342910767},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C28826006","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33521","display_name":"Applied mathematics","level":1,"score":0.37478578090667725},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C79403827","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3988","display_name":"Real-time computing","level":1,"score":0.36274808645248413},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C126255220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141495","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","level":1,"score":0.3402021527290344},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.3087153136730194},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124444977","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4025962","display_name":"Fork\u2013join queue","level":4,"score":0.24410861730575562},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C128220111","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4531011","display_name":"Queue management system","level":3,"score":0.22677680850028992},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C105795698","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12483","display_name":"Statistics","level":1,"score":0.198833167552948},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31258907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301371","display_name":"Computer network","level":1,"score":0.13346368074417114},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2524010","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8087","display_name":"Geometry","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":3,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1287/opre.40.3.s217","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.40.3.s217","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.40.3.s217","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S125775545","display_name":"Operations Research","issn_l":"0030-364X","issn":["0030-364X","1526-5463"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a-star","anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","fnege-1-star","ft50","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","utd24","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315699","host_organization_name":"Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315699"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Operations Research","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.920.6521","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.920.6521","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5190/OR-212-90.pdf%3Bjsessionid%3DD77014B271809E1FA7E2D224A258A65C?sequence%3D1","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5190","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5190","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400425","display_name":"DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I63966007","host_organization_name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I63966007"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by-nc","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nc","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Working Paper"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5190","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5190","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400425","display_name":"DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I63966007","host_organization_name":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I63966007"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by-nc","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nc","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Working Paper"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2039985813","https://openalex.org/W2020234621","https://openalex.org/W7099057494","https://openalex.org/W2328483302","https://openalex.org/W2031021260","https://openalex.org/W1521443680","https://openalex.org/W2106549911","https://openalex.org/W2134316251","https://openalex.org/W2074617290","https://openalex.org/W2275862750"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"R.":[0],"Larson":[1],"proposed":[2],"a":[3,14,44,98],"method":[4],"to":[5,52,77],"statistically":[6],"infer":[7],"the":[8,21,32,37,60,67,80,95,105,121],"expected":[9],"transient":[10,54],"queue":[11,55,84],"length":[12],"during":[13,31],"busy":[15,33,68],"period":[16,34],"in":[17,66],"O(n5)":[18],"solely":[19],"from":[20],"n":[22],"starting":[23],"and":[24,35,102,123],"stopping":[25],"times":[26,62,110],"of":[27,63,97,107,125],"each":[28,64,87],"customer's":[29],"service":[30],"assuming":[36],"arrival":[38],"distribution":[39],"is":[40],"Poisson.":[41],"We":[42,70,115],"develop":[43,72],"new":[45],"O(n3)":[46],"algorithm":[47,76],"which":[48],"uses":[49],"these":[50],"data":[51],"deduce":[53],"lengths":[56,85],"as":[57,59],"well":[58],"waiting":[61],"customer":[65],"period.":[69],"also":[71,103],"an":[73,112],"O(n)":[74],"on-line":[75],"dynamically":[78],"update":[79],"current":[81],"estimates":[82],"for":[83,94,104],"after":[86],"departure.":[88],"Moreover,":[89],"we":[90],"generalize":[91],"our":[92,126],"algorithms":[93],"case":[96,106],"time-varying":[99],"Poisson":[100],"process":[101],"i.i.d.":[108],"interarrival":[109],"with":[111],"arbitrary":[113],"distribution.":[114],"report":[116],"computational":[117],"results":[118],"that":[119],"exhibit":[120],"speed":[122],"accuracy":[124],"algorithms.":[127]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-27T15:51:10.671819","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}