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9/21/2020 Removing BUSN 152 Information Systems, BUSN 303 New Venture Creation
No full textRemoving BUSN 152 Information Systems, BUSN 303 New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship, and BUSN 304 Intrapreneurship and Innovation Development as options for the Business Minor in order to create distinction between the Business Minor and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Minor in addition to limit the focus of the Minor to advanced knowledge and skills necessary through taking 400 level courses that will enhance the management capability. Those courses will be replaced by MGMT 479 Leadership and MGMT 465 Strategic Management
10/5/2020: Internet of Things
No full textThe change adds more detailed information focusing on the IoT architecture layers to the course description and changes part of the description’s focus from the tools used in lab to the topics covered by the course
Busy Period Analysis of Multi-Server Retrial Queueing Systems
No full textThe literature on the busy period analysis in queueing theory is very limited due to the inherent complexity in its study. Recently, using the simulation approach the busy period for the classical multi-server queueing systems was studied by this author and some interesting observations were reported. In this paper we carry out a similar analysis but on a smaller scale in the case of multi-server retrial queueing systems. It should be pointed out that while the literature on retrial queueing system is vast, the same cannot be said about the busy period analysis in retrial queueing systems. Only a few papers with restricted assumptions are available in the literature. This paper is an attempt to fill the void
Queueing-Inventory Models for a Two-Vendor System with Positive Service Times
Get PDFQueueing-inventory systems wherein the demands are processed with random service times have been getting a lot of attention recently. In such systems, each demand needs one or more inventory items and needs positive processing times. The inventory is generally replenished using -type policy and the lead times are assumed to be random. In this paper we introduce the concept of multiple vendors who will be responsible for the replenishment of inventory. Under the assumptions of a two-vendor system wherein the demands occurring according to a Markovian arrival process, the service times to be of phase type, and the lead times to be exponentially distributed with parameter depending on the vendor, we analyze the model in steady-state using the well-known matrix-analytic methods. Some interesting numerical examples are presented including one comparing the one and the two-vendor systems
April 20, 2020: Covid-19 Update
Get PDFConsistent with our commitment to do so by April 20, we now are able to make a number of decisions concerning the operation of the University through the remainder of the spring term as well as into the start of our new academic year. These, along with updated information on our plans for 2020 Commencement, are summarized below and detailed in the text of this letter
2/19/2020: Course Change Form BUSN 312
No full textThis change is intended to retain important topics of business process analysis that would be lost given the elimination of BUSN 361, Lean Operations Management. However, an opportunity exists with this situation to transform this course from a direct mathematical problem-solution teaching method to a more holistic problem-solving, student-active approach. Such problem-solving methods are common in the workplace, but not often the approach in formal education. To accommodate space in the course, some of the less common operations research and redundant statistical procedures will be removed. On balance these changes in the course will better prepare students to confidently address problems assigned in the workplace with proven approaches that encourage data-based decision alternatives and communication of implementation plans
