OBSERVING GENERAL SERVICE QUEUES BEFORE JOINING

Authors
STANFORD DA HLYNKA M
Citation
Da. Stanford et M. Hlynka, OBSERVING GENERAL SERVICE QUEUES BEFORE JOINING, Operations research letters, 18(5), 1996, pp. 237-245
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Operatione Research & Management Science","Operatione Research & Management Science
Journal title
Operations research letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01676377
Volume
18
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
237 - 245
Database
ISI
SICI code
0167-6377(1996)18:5<237:OGSQBJ>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
A ''smart'' customer S uses a strategy of waiting and observing two pa rallel queues before joining. We analyze the system time of S, for two distinct strategies. One result generalizes a known previous result.