Research queueing package modeling environment (RESQME)

Abstract

The Research Queueing Package Modeling Environment (RESQME) provides a graphical environment for constructing, solving, and analyzing the results of extended queueing network models of resource contention systems. It has been used to improve the performance of existing and planned systems in such application areas as computer systems, communications networks, manufacturing processes, transportation systems, customer service facilities. RESQME provides the capability to specify a queueing model by drawing a network diagram and attaching attribute information to each object in the diagram. It then evaluates the model using its general-purpose, discrete event simulation software and produces graphical and tabular performance results, along with animation on the original model diagram. Confidence interval methods are incorporated to insure that the results of a simulation meet the desired level of accuracy.