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I used the question, "is this a queue?" a fair bit in product and in engineering. Question I have is, as an abstract object, what other things are there in tha

I used the question, "is this a queue?" a fair bit in product and in engineering. Question I have is, as an abstract object, what other things are there in that category? e.g. is this phenomenon governed by, a channel w/ information, a differential, an integral, a state machine, a fluid, - and are these objects at the same logical level of abstraction as a queue?

kqr 3y ago
> a state machine If it's Markov, then maybe. Simpler queues are often analysed as Markov chains. > a fluid I had this exact same question ("is queueing theory just discrete fluid dynamics?") and set out to learn some fluid dynamics to see what I could find out, but my math background was not (yet) sufficient for fluid dynamics. My hunch with the little I know is that "no, the connection is not obvious". > a channel w/ information Interesting lead! I have not yet studied information theory but when I do I'll keep this question in mind. Given the neat link between information theory and betting I wouldn't be surprised if there's something approaching queueing too.