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abstract: This meeting will be the 7th in a series of workshops scoping to promote research and encourage interaction in the community of retrial queues. Applied Probabilists, Operation Researchers, Engineers, Computer Scientists and Statisticians with a main or side interest in queueing are very welcome. The scope of the conference includes both theoretical papers with advances in mathematical techniques that can be usuful for analysing retrial queueing models as well as applications of retrial queueing systems.

abstract: System dynamics is a methodology for studying and managing complex feedback systems, such as one finds in business and other social systems. In fact it has been used to address practically every sort of feedback system. While the word system has been applied to all sorts of situations, feedback is the differentiating descriptor here. Feedback refers to the situation of X affecting Y and Y in turn affecting X perhaps through a chain of causes and effects. One cannot study the link between X and Y and, independently, the link between Y and X and predict how the system will behave. Only the study of the whole system as a feedback system will lead to correct results.