This is a really simple analysis of elevator algorithms, mostly based on anecdotal evidence. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole of these algorithms,

This is a really simple analysis of elevator algorithms, mostly based on anecdotal evidence. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole of these algorithms, there's a whole lot of scientific papers written about them. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=elevator+algorithm&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=on http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=elevator+algorithm&h...