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Interval Random Variables and Their Application in Queueing Systems with Long–Tailed Service Times

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Soft Methods for Integrated Uncertainty Modelling

Part of the book series: Advances in Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 37))

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interval random variables, queueing, long–tailed distributions, Laplace transform

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  1. Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, ul. Nowowiejska 15/19, 00–665, Warsaw, Poland

    Bartłomiej Jacek Kubica & Krzysztof Malinowski

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  1. AI Group Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TR, Bristol, UK

    Jonathan Lawry

  2. Statistics and Operations Research, Rey Juan Carlos University, C-Tulip˙n s/n MÛstoles28933, Spain

    Enrique Miranda

  3. Intelligent Systems Group Department of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Alberto Bugarin

  4. Department of Applied Mathematics, Beijing University of Technology, 100022, Beijing, P.R. China

    Shoumei Li

  5. Dpto. Estadistica e I.O y D.M. Calle Calvo Sotelo s/n, Universiad de Oviedo Fac. Ciencias, 33071, Oviedo, Spain

    Maria Angeles Gil

  6. Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

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  7. Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Olgierd Hyrniewicz

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Kubica, B.J., Malinowski, K. (2006). Interval Random Variables and Their Application in Queueing Systems with Long–Tailed Service Times. In: Lawry, J., et al. Soft Methods for Integrated Uncertainty Modelling. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34777-1_46

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