On Competition to Join a Simple Queueing System Before the Facility Opens

DOI10.1287/MNSC.31.3.358MaRDI QIDQ3747205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Colin E. Bell

Publication date 1985

Published in Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.31.3.358

zbMATH Keywords

cost of waiting timeFIFO servicesindividual vs social optimasingle servervalue of service received

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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