Equilibrium threshold strategies: The case of queues with priorities

Operations Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 966-973

  Hassin, Refael ^a   Haviv, Moshe ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DECISION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BALKING; NASH EQUILIBRIUM STRATEGIES; PRIORITY; QUEUES; RENEGING;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 0031275052     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.45.6.966     Document Type: Article

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