Prof. Mohan Chaudhry of Royal Military College, Canada

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  Abstract

  
  

A queue is simply a sequence of customers and/or goods lined to be served or processed. The formation of queues is somehow involved in a wide spectrum of one’s daily activities; for instance, in banks, grocery stores, hospitals, airports, manufacturing systems, telecommunications and in traffic. They create inconvenience to customers and cost firms as well as organizations. Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines and is generally considered as a branch of operations research. The objective of the study of queueing theory is to eliminate waste of time, money and materials. When not dealt with properly, queues can result in severe network congestions, thus making them to be something important to be studied by business organizations and understood by engineers. The purpose of this talk is to trace the history of queueing theory and its usefulness in the fields of engineering, business, and management.

Biography:

Mohan L. Chaudhry, Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at the Royal Military College of Canada, has served the college in several capacities including headship of the Department. He has made fundamental contributions to both the theoretical and the computational aspects of queueing theory, particularly bulk queues, thus advancing the field of Operations

Research for applications. He has supervised 50 students in various capacities such as undergraduate, graduate (Master’s and Ph.D.) and post-doctoral fellows. He has published two books and edited special issues of journals. When the roots method was being criticized by several mathematicians such as Kendall, Kleinrock or Neuts, he gave a new algorithm for root-finding which is available in (Chaudhry, M.L., Harris, C.M., and Marchal, W.G.: Robustness of root finding in single-server queueing models. INFORMS Journal on Computing. 2, 273-286 (1990)). He has held invited/distinguished professorships at several international institutions such as George Mason University, USA; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea; SMACS Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium; IIT, Kharagpur, India, and has won several scholarships and awards such as Award of Merit given by the Canadian Operational Research Society and Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman Award as a Global Achiever given by the Government of India. He has received funding over 1.6 million dollars leading to publications of over 130 papers, and is consulted nationally and internationally for reviewing, refereeing and advisory work.