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A Hotelling queue model with probabilistic service

Authors :
Xin Li
Xiaoya Xu
Pengfei Guo
Zhaotong Lian
Source :
Operations Research Letters. 44:592-597
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2016.

Abstract

We study the pricing problem for a firm with two servers where heterogeneous customers can choose between deterministic service and probabilistic service. We find that different queueing priority policies do not affect the firms revenue but affect the firms optimal pricing strategies. Specifically, when the flexible customers (who choose probabilistic service) have a high priority, the optimal price of the deterministic service could be lower than the one of the probabilistic service in a small or moderate market.

Details

ISSN :
01676377
Volume :
44
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Operations Research Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........56d324da589470f663d94b035107a707
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2016.07.003