An appointment-based service center with guaranteed service

Yair M. Babad; Maqbool Dada; Aditya N. Saharia

doi:10.1016/0377-2217(95)00267-7

An appointment-based service center with guaranteed service

Yair M. Babad, Maqbool Dada, Aditya N. Saharia

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Abstract

Customers are scheduled to arrive at periodic scheduling intervals to receive service from a single server system. A customer must start receiving service within a given departure interval; if this is not the case, the system will pay a penalty and/or transfer the customer to another facility at the system's cost. A complete transient and steady-state analysis of the system is given, the optimal scheduling and departure intervals are determined, and the virtual work in the system is analyzed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	246-258
Number of pages	13
Journal	European Journal of Operational Research
Volume	89
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(95)00267-7
State	Published - Mar 8 1996
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Guaranteed service
Queueing
Service center management
Stochastic processes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science(all)
Modeling and Simulation
Management Science and Operations Research
Information Systems and Management

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