A priority queue is a data structure that holds information that has some sort of priority value. When an item is removed from a priority queue, it's always the item with the highest priority.

Operations Research, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1981), pp. 174-188 (15 pages) We consider an M/M/1 queue with two types of customers: priority customers and regular customers. They arrive at the ...

We examine whether priority queues benefit or hurt customers in a setting in which customers are privately informed of their per-unit-time waiting cost. Implementing a priority queue thus means ...

Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a course on data structures, which describes different ways of organizing data in a computer's memory. Every data structure has its own advantages: ...

Considered is a class of rth order delay-dependent priority queuing disciplines in which a customer from the pth priority group, who arrives at time T, has a priority qp(t) at time t given by qp(t)=bp ...

A priority queue assigns a priority to each element. Knowing how to build them is important in solving many coding problems. A priority queue is a data structure that holds information that has some ...