Rational queueing. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Refael Hassin.
• Authors: Hassin, Refael
• Contents: Introduction; Rational queueing; Scope; Mode of description; Basic models and assumptions; Demand; Information; Social optimality; Useful concepts; Terminology conventions; Plan Observable queues; Extensions and variations of Naor’s model; The dual approach; Allocation of heterogeneous items; Probabilistic joining; Server selection and capacity allocation; Dynamic control Information; Queue-length-information heterogeneity; Quality-information heterogeneity and signaling; Processing-time information; Information acquisition; Information control; Environmental uncertainty; Delayed information and cheap talk; Ticket queues Customer decisions; Temporal decisions; Joining, reneging, and jockeying; Benchmark effects; Priority purchasing, overtaking, and line-cutting; Duplicate orders; Choosing the arrival rate; Choosing the service duration Social optimization and cooperation; Coordination by pricing; Positive network effects; Priorities; Strategies using memory; Decentralized systems; Systems with public and private service facilities; Cooperation in service systems; Efficiency and price of anarchy; Trading positions Monopoly; Profit maximization in Naor’s model; Price and capacity; Expert systems; Subscriptions and nonlinear pricing; Providing substitute services; Priorities ; Hoteling-type location models; Searching for customers Competition; Competition when customers maximize utility; Competition with exogenous demand functions; Competition with limited cooperation; Multi-period competition; Hoteling-type models; Customer loyalty Routing in queueing networks ; Parallel servers; Queues with different regimes; Complementary services; Partial control; Routing with transportation costs; Braess-type paradoxes; The Downs–Thomson paradox Supply chains, outsourcing, and contracting; Inventory supply chains; Service supply chains; Allocation of demand to suppliers; Competition; Internet service provision; Queueing games Vacations; Strategic vacations; Forced vacations, breakdowns, and catastrophes; Clearing systems Bounded rationality; Heuristic strategies; Quantal response and attraction demand functions; Quotation sensitivity; Joining and reneging Bibliography Subject index; Author index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.4034; Queuing theory; Probabilities; Consumer behavior
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498745284
• Related ISBNs: 9781498745277
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