School of Management
University of Edinburgh
4pm 24 February 2004
Room 2511, JCMB, King's Buildings
Restless bandits were introduced by Whittle (1988) and constitute an intractable class of decision processes which underly a range of important areas of application. One such area is the control of queueing systems. The talk will illustrate ideas and approaches by discussing a problem involving the optimal routing of impatient customers to a collection of parallel service stations.