Wim Cohen

Jacob Willem "Wim" Cohen (27 August 1923 Leeuwarden – 12 November 2000) was a Dutch mathematician, well known for over hundred scientific publications and several books in queueing theory.

Cohen was born in a Jewish family, as the son of Benjamin Cohen and Aaltje Klein.

• The single server queue (1969)
• Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioural Sciences (Academic Press, 1969)
• On regenerative processes in queueing theory
• Boundary value problems in queueing systems (Elsevier, 1983). Editor with Onno J. Boxma.
• Analysis of random walks (IOS Press, 1992)

Awards

• Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
  AKZO prize (1986)
• honorary doctorate from the
  Technion
  (1988)
• honorary member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Teletraffic Congress.
• ITC Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Advisory Committee of the International Teletraffic Congress (1997).

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