Little's law

area: Efficiency and operations · 0 papers in the last 7 days

L = \lambda W

Average number in a queueing system equals the arrival rate times the average time spent in it.

LaTeX: L = \lambda W

Names searched for: Little's law, Little's formula

Key findings

Little's law was mentioned in 1 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #99 of the 104 equations and models mentioned.
By journal category: Operations Research (1).
Most of them appeared in Journal of Scheduling (1).
Often mentioned together with Linear and integer programming (1).
From Apr 2024 to Sep 2026, 1 archived papers mentioned Little's law in their title, abstract or keywords, most of them in Apr 2026 (1).

Mentions over 30 months

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Apr 2024 to Sep 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
Trend	Apr 24–Sep 24	Oct 24–Sep 25	Oct 25–Sep 26	30 months
	0	0	1	1

Papers mentioning Little's law, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-13	The automated valet parking problem for parking garage service provision	Journal of Scheduling	Marc Schmidt, Philipp Staudt	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Little's law. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/equations/little-s-law

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  title = {Little's law},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/equations/little-s-law}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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