We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores ...

Considering the acceleration of social time encouraged by the ever increasing speed in the circulation of goods and products in the current phase of capitalist development, it becomes essential to reflect on the configuration ...

In this research, the analysis and study of a waiting line for customer service in a swimming academy in Lima, Peru, are addressed. The waiting system was modeled in the ProModel simulation software to determine the ...

Objectives: Identify waiting room design features that are most appreciated by outpatients and their companions in conventional and modern waiting rooms. Evaluate if end users evaluate the environment differently from ...

This paper addresses the m-machine no-wait flow shop problem where the set-up time of a job is separated from its processing time. The performance measure considered is the total flowtime. A new hybrid metaheuristic Genetic ...

An intermittent two-state noise can be modelled through a renewal process characterized by two different time scales. A (four state) Markovian embedding of this non-Markovian process is presented. The equivalence between ...