Editorial introduction to ‘100 views on queues’

Excerpt

To celebrate the appearance of Volume 100 of the journal Queueing Systems, it has seemed appropriate to us to publish a special issue with 100 short notes by prominent and upcoming researchers in the field. In December 2021 we have invited a group of about 160 researchers to write such a note, choosing one of the following topics: (1) What is a very challenging problem that you are presently working on or on which you would like to work in the near future, and/or which in your view deserves a large research effort; present a problem sketch, indication of the main difficulties and a possible approach. (2) What is a problem on which you have worked in your career, about which you feel that it is not yet successfully completed? (3) What is a problem that you should have tackled (or devoted more time to) and now regret that you didn’t? …