Optimal Service Speeds in a Competitive Environment

DOI10.1287/mnsc.38.8.1154zbMath0767.90016MaRDI QIDQ4017548

Ehud Kalai, Morton I. Kamien, Michael Rubinovitch

Publication date: 16 January 1993

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/math/papers/901.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Nash equilibrium; Poisson arrivals; competing exponential servers; competition in speed of service

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91A05: 2-person games

91A80: Applications of game theory

90B22: Queues and service in operations research

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