BETA Workshop on Polling Systems 27 March 2009

On Friday 27th of March 2009, BETA organizes a Workshop on Polling Systems, which takes place at EURANDOM, located on the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology. The goal of this workshop is to present some recent research efforts on polling models and their applications. The full-day programme (+/- from 10h30 until 16h45) consists of two keynote speeches by Uri Yechiali (Tel Aviv University) and Rob van der Mei (VU, CWI), and six talks of Beta PhD students.

Participation is free of charge. Lunch is included, but we ask participants to register using the form at the bottom of this page, so we can make sure that there is enough lunch.

Marko Boon and Roland de Haan

For more information, please contact the organizers by sending an email to polling@www.win.tue.nl.

Programme

Time	Speaker	Title
10h40-11h25:	Rob van der Mei	The revival of polling models: the past, the present and the future
11h25-11h40:	Coffee break
11h40-12h05:	Sandra van Wijk	Polling systems with a gated/exhaustive discipline
12h05-12h30:	Roland de Haan	Analysis of polling systems under exponential time-limited service disciplines
12h30-13h45:	Lunch
13h45-14h30:	Uri Yechiali	Fluid polling systems
14h30-14h45:	Coffee break
14h45-15h10:	Josine Bruin	Sojourn times in polling systems with various service disciplines
15h10-15h35:	Ahmad Al-Hanbali	Time-limited and k-limited polling systems: A matrix geometric solution
15h35-15h50:	Coffee break
15h50-16h15:	Marko Boon	Mixed gated/exhaustive service in a polling model with priorities

Location

The workshop wil be held at EURANDOM, which is located at the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology (at walking distance from the railway station). The lectures are in room LG -1.19 or LG 1.110, depending on the number of participants.

Registration Form

If you want to attend the Beta Polling Workshop at March 27, 2009, please fill out your name and affiliation:

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