Alexopoulos, Christos; Goldsman, David; Fontanesi, John; … - In: Omega 36 (2008) 1, pp. 33-43
We develop improved methods for modeling and simulating the streams of patients arriving at a community clinic. In previous practice, random (unscheduled) patient arrivals were often assumed to follow an ordinary Poisson process (so the corresponding patient interarrival times were randomly...