Sharing delay information in service systems: a literature survey

Rouba Ibrahim ()
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Rouba Ibrahim: University College London

Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, 2018, vol. 89, issue 1, No 4, 49-79

Abstract: Abstract Service providers routinely share information about upcoming waiting times with their customers, through delay announcements. The need to effectively manage the provision of these announcements has led to a substantial growth in the body of literature which is devoted to that topic. In this survey paper, we systematically review the relevant literature, summarize some of its key ideas and findings, describe the main challenges that the different approaches to the problem entail, and formulate research directions that would be interesting to consider in future work.

Keywords: Delay announcements; Queueing models; Service systems; 90B22; 90B50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11134-018-9577-y

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