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@Article{Fitzgerald:1995:TEQ,
  author =       "Sue Fitzgerald and Jerry Place",
  title =        "Teaching elementary queueing theory with a computer
                 algebra system",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "27",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "350--354",
  month =        mar,
  year =         "1995",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/199691.199857;
                 https://doi.org/10.1145/199688.199857",
  ISBN =         "0-89791-693-X",
  ISBN-13 =      "978-0-89791-693-6",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sat Nov 17 18:57:28 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "DBLP;
                 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sigcse/sigcse1995.html#FitzgeraldP95;
                 http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/maple-extract.bib;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/mathematica.bib;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1990.bib",
  URL =          "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Math/maple-extract.bib;
                 ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/DBLP/1995.bib",
  abstract =     "Computer algebra systems such as Maple, Mathematica
                 and MACSYMA are readily available for a wide range of
                 PC's and workstations. Many college campuses have site
                 licenses for these software tools and make them widely
                 available to students through PC labs, across networks
                 and on time sharing systems. Additionally student
                 versions of these software tools are widely available
                 at nominal cost. Computer algebra systems provide
                 sophisticated computational support and are intuitive
                 to use. In this paper we describe how we use a computer
                 algebra system to support an upper division
                 undergraduate course teaching elementary queueing
                 theory. We discuss the significant enhancement added by
                 using a computer algebra system for this course work.
                 We present the traditional approach to this material,
                 i.e., deriving the closed form solutions for a specific
                 queueing model then we show how we approach the
                 material using numerical solutions based on the general
                 equations for steady state probabilities for a Poisson
                 Birth-Death process. We present several examples and
                 discuss the strengths of our approach.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  affiliation =  "Dept. of Math. and Comput. Sci., Rockhurst Coll.,
                 Kansas City, MO, USA",
  classification = "C1140C (Queueing theory); C7310 (Mathematics
                 computing); C7810C (Computer-aided instruction)",
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
  keywords =     "Closed form solutions; Computational support; Computer
                 algebra system; Elementary queueing theory; MACSYMA;
                 Maple; Mathematica; PC labs; Personal computer; Poisson
                 Birth-Death process; Steady state probabilities;
                 Teaching; Time sharing systems; Undergraduate course;
                 Workstations",
  thesaurus =    "Computer aided instruction; Courseware; Educational
                 courses; Mathematics computing; Probability; Queueing
                 theory",
}

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