Behavior-Aware Queueing: The Finite-Buffer Setting with Many Strategic Servers

Author:

Zhong Yueyang1ORCID,Gopalakrishnan Ragavendran2ORCID,Ward Amy R.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637;

2. Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada

Abstract

In “Behavior-Aware Queueing: The Finite-Buffer Setting with Many Strategic Servers,” Zhong, Gopalakrishnan, and Ward develop a game-theoretic many-server Markovian queueing model with finite or infinite buffers to study the behavior of strategic servers whose choice of work speed depends on managerial decisions regarding (i) how many servers to staff and how much to pay them and (ii) whether and when to turn away customers. In order to predictably control system performance (e.g., lost demand, customer wait times, server burnout, etc.), they show that the system manager must either staff enough servers or pay them enough. For example, when servers are not paid enough, increasing their workload beyond a tipping point may result in a sharp drop in system performance because of server “rebellion.” Their work also establishes key foundational building blocks to advance the analysis of behavior-aware queueing models where both customers and servers are strategic and customers’ decisions endogenously induce a finite buffer.

Publisher

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Subject

Management Science and Operations Research,Computer Science Applications

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