Equilibrium threshold joining strategies in partially observable batch service queueing systems

Olga Bountali () and Antonis Economou ()
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Olga Bountali: Southern Methodist University
Antonis Economou: University of Athens

Annals of Operations Research, 2019, vol. 277, issue 2, No 6, 253 pages

Abstract: Abstract We study the strategic customer behavior in queueing systems with batch services under incomplete information. In particular, we assume that arriving customers have the opportunity to observe only the number of waiting batches upon arrival and, afterwards, they make their join/balk decisions. We prove that equilibrium strategies always exist within the legitimate class of threshold strategies, but they may not be unique. We also provide an algorithmic scheme for their computation. Moreover, we compare the strategic behavior under this information level with the corresponding behavior in the complete information case.

Keywords: Queueing theory; Strategic customers; Batch services; Balking; Equilibrium strategies; Partial information; Follow-The-Crowd (FTC) behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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