Equilibrium and optimal strategies to join a queue with partial information on service times

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2011.04.011zbMath1218.90057OpenAlexW2037156377MaRDI QIDQ2275820

Wei Sun, Yulan Wang, Pengfei Guo

Publication date: 10 August 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2011.04.011

zbMATH Keywords

queueingequilibriumpartial informationentropy maximizationjoining/balking behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Economics of information (91B44)

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