Hey
Wondering if you lovely people could give me a few ideas, I'm a second year computer science student at warwick uni, well on my way to a first
(I hope!) and I've got a piece of coursework to do for march time and im just looking into what to base it on. I am doing a (discrete event) simulation module which basically means I need to study a "system" which involves activities and queues.
Such an example is a bank, with a queue, activities such as "being served" by resources (cashiers). Others include petrol stations, supermarkets etc. The idea being that you adjust certain values (such as number of petrol pumps), run the simulation again, and get expected average queue lengths etc.
Now, although I'm tempted to do such a system, it's rather unexciting and I would either like some ideas of similar systems (preferably more exciting)
OR
alternately, and prehaps my main point of this thread is that I was considering dedicating my coursework to OcUK themselves and modelling the company (queues on the phone, resources such as salespeople answering them, and orders). Unfortunately I dont know much about how it works (As I've only ever order via your online website) and as such, I havent really got any ideas on how to model the company so any insight here would be marvellous. I know it's asking a lot but if a don/employee could give me any details, and if it ends up as a fairly detailed model I would only be too happy to give OcUK full access to it - you never know, it may help!
Ideas, comments - all welcome.
Wondering if you lovely people could give me a few ideas, I'm a second year computer science student at warwick uni, well on my way to a first
(I hope!) and I've got a piece of coursework to do for march time and im just looking into what to base it on. I am doing a (discrete event) simulation module which basically means I need to study a "system" which involves activities and queues. Such an example is a bank, with a queue, activities such as "being served" by resources (cashiers). Others include petrol stations, supermarkets etc. The idea being that you adjust certain values (such as number of petrol pumps), run the simulation again, and get expected average queue lengths etc.
Now, although I'm tempted to do such a system, it's rather unexciting and I would either like some ideas of similar systems (preferably more exciting)
OR
alternately, and prehaps my main point of this thread is that I was considering dedicating my coursework to OcUK themselves and modelling the company (queues on the phone, resources such as salespeople answering them, and orders). Unfortunately I dont know much about how it works (As I've only ever order via your online website) and as such, I havent really got any ideas on how to model the company so any insight here would be marvellous. I know it's asking a lot but if a don/employee could give me any details, and if it ends up as a fairly detailed model I would only be too happy to give OcUK full access to it - you never know, it may help!
Ideas, comments - all welcome.