On the advantage of being the first server

Management Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 618-623

  Hassin, Refael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Queues; Threshold Strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442506127     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.4.618     Document Type: Article

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