Equilibrium customers' choice between FCFS and random servers

Queueing Systems

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-254

  Hassin, Refael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Nash equilibrium; Random service

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; QUEUEING THEORY;

DISTRIBUTED SERVICE; EQUAL SERVICES; FIRST COME FIRST SERVED; NASH EQUILIBRIA; POISSON PROCESS; RANDOM SERVICES;

SALES;

EID: 70349257220     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11134-009-9127-8     Document Type: Article

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