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The effects of information on a queue with balking and phase‐type service times

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  • Pengfei Guo
  • Paul Zipkin

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This article generalizes the models in Guo and Zipkin, who focus on exponential service times, to systems with phase‐type service times. Each arriving customer decides whether to stay or balk based on his expected waiting cost, conditional on the information provided. We show how to compute the throughput and customers' average utility in each case. We then obtain some analytical and numerical results to assess the effect of more or less information. We also show that service‐time variability degrades the system's performance. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2008

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  • Pengfei Guo & Paul Zipkin, 2008. "The effects of information on a queue with balking and phase‐type service times," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 55(5), pages 406-411, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:55:y:2008:i:5:p:406-411
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.20291
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    1. Pengfei Guo & Paul Zipkin, 2007. "Analysis and Comparison of Queues with Different Levels of Delay Information," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 53(6), pages 962-970, June.
    2. P. H. Brill & M. J. M. Posner, 1977. "Level Crossings in Point Processes Applied to Queues: Single-Server Case," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 25(4), pages 662-674, August.
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