Finite queueing modeling and optimization : a selected review

This review provides an overview of the queueing modeling issues and the related performance evaluation and optimization approaches framed in a joined manufacturing and product engineering. Such networks are represented as queueing networks. The performance of the queueing networks is evaluated using an advanced queueing network analyzer: the generalized expansion method. Secondly, different model approaches are described and optimized with regards to the key parameters in the network (e.g. buffer and server sizes, service rates, and so on.)