Homogeneous customers renege from invisible queues at random times under deteriorating waiting conditions

Queueing Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 495-508

  Haviv, Moshe ^a,b   Ritov, Ya'acov ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

FIFO; Nash equilibrium; Utility function

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY;

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; FIFO; FIRST-COME-FIRST-SERVED QUEUES; MEMORYLESS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NASH EQUILIBRIA; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

SALES;

EID: 0035539528     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010908330518     Document Type: Article

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