Speaker: Dr. Anuradha Banerjee, IIT Kharagpur
Time and Date: 3pm, Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Venue: Room 208, Mechanical Engg. Building.
Abstract:
Bulk-service queues have potential applications in several areas including telecommunication, computer communication systems, transportation, manufacturing etc. Recently, it has found application in group testing, quality control, industrial production systems, etc. It has been shown by the researchers that the group testing is a cost effective procedure and can be used in several areas including blood testing (in detecting HIV or other bacteria and viruses from blood/urine samples).
In the design and analysis of any queueing systems, one of the main objectives is to reduce congestion. This can be achieved by controlling either arrival-rates or service-rates or both. In the talk the effectiveness of batch-size-dependent service (i.e., second approach of controlling the congestion) in a single-server finite-buffer bulk-service queue where customers arrive according to the Poisson process and are served in batches of minimum size a with a maximum threshold limit b was discussed.
About the speaker:
Dr. Anuradha Banerjee, a NBHM Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dept. of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur presented a talk on Bulk-service queues with batch-size-dependent service on 3rd April 2013. The talk was attended by students as well as faculty from both IEOR and other departments. She has a PhD from Dept. of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur and a MSc in Applied Mathematics from Jadavpur University. Her current research interests are in Queuing Theory and Modeling in OR. She has also worked as Assistant Professor in Deptartment of Mathematics, School of Applied Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar.