Strategically seeking service: How competition can generate poisson arrivals

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-40

  Lariviere, Martin A ^a   Van Mieghem, Jan A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game theory; Mixed strategy equilibrium; Poisson process; Queuing; Service management

Indexed keywords

MIXED-STRATEGY EQUILIBRIUM; POISSON PROCESS; QUEUING; SERVICE MANAGEMENT;

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; FUNCTIONS; GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 25144501194     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1030.0030     Document Type: Article

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