The effects of the availability of waiting-time information on a balking queue

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2008.07.035zbMath1163.90424OpenAlexW1994957131MaRDI QIDQ1027606

Paul Zipkin, Pengfei Guo

Publication date: 30 June 2009

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2008.07.035

zbMATH Keywords

queueingequilibrium analysisstate-dependent arrivalsimpatient customersdelay information

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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