Stability and chaos in input pricing for a service facility with adaptive customer response to congestion

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 246-261

  Rump, Christopher M ^a   Stidham Jr , Shaler ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Chaos; Optimal Design of Queues; Optimal Pricing; Service Facility; Stable Equilibrium

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUEUEING THEORY; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CHAOTIC BEHAVIORS; INPUT PRICING MODELS;

FEES AND CHARGES;

EID: 0032003307     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.2.246     Document Type: Article

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