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Fluid Limit of a PS-queue with Multistage Service

Probability 2016-04-20 v1

Abstract

The PS-model treated in this paper is motivated by freelance job websites where multiple freelancers compete for a single job. In the context of such websites, multistage service of a job means collection of applications from multiple freelancers. Under Markovian stochastic assumptions, we develop fluid limit approximations for the PS-model in overload. Based on this approximation, we estimate what proportion of freelancers get the jobs they apply for. In addition, the PS-model studied here is an instant of PS with routing and impatience, for which no Lyapunov function is known, and we suggest some partial solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1604.05464,
  title  = {Fluid Limit of a PS-queue with Multistage Service},
  author = {Maria Remerova and Bert Zwart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.05464},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages

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