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This paper studies a service system in which arriving customers are provided with information about the delay they will experience. Based on this information they decide to wait for service or to leave the system. Specifically, every…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Yoshiaki Inoue , Liron Ravner , Michel Mandjes

We consider a Markovian clearing queueing system, where the customers are accumulated according to a Poisson arrival process and the server removes all present customers at the completion epochs of exponential service cycles. This system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-26 Antonis Economou , Athanasia Manou

This work presents a variation of Naor's strategic observable model (1969), by adding a component of customer heterogeneity induced by the location of customers in relation to the server. Accordingly, customers incur a travel cost which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Refael Hassin , Irit Nowik , Yair Y. Shaki

In this paper, we introduce a preliminary model for interactions in the data market. Recent research has shown ways in which a data aggregator can design mechanisms for users to ensure the quality of data, even in situations where the users…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Tyler Westenbroek , Roy Dong , Lillian J. Ratliff , S. Shankar Sastry

This paper investigates a partially observable queueing system with $N$ nodes in which each node has a dedicated arrival stream. There is an extra arrival stream to balance the load of the system by routing its customers to the shortest…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Qihui Bu , Liwei Liu , Jiashan Tang , Yiqiang Q. Zhao

A consumer who wants to consume a good in a particular period may nevertheless attempt to buy it earlier if he is concerned that in delaying he would find the good already sold. This paper considers a model in which the good may be offered…

General Economics · Economics 2023-04-05 Amihai Glazer , Refael Hassin , Irit Nowik

This paper analyzes a service system modeled as a single-server queue, in which the service provider aims to dynamically maximize the expected revenue per unit of time. This is achieved by constructing a stochastic gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Shreehari Anand Bodas , Harsha Honnappa , Michel Mandjes , Liron Ravner

A two-sided matching system is considered, where servers are assumed to arrive at a fixed rate, while the arrival rate of customers is modulated via a price-control mechanism. We analyse a loss model, wherein customers who are not served…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Rahul Vaze , Jayakrishnan Nair

We study service scheduling problems in a slotted system in which agents arrive with service requests according to a Bernoulli process and have to leave within two slots after arrival, service costs are quadratic in service rates, and there…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Ramya Burra , Chandramani Singh , Joy Kuri

This paper studies a class of strongly monotone games involving non-cooperative agents that optimize their own time-varying cost functions. We assume that the agents can observe other agents' historical actions and choose actions that best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Zifan Wang , Yi Shen , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

We suggest a novel stochastic-approximation algorithm to compute a symmetric Nash-equilibrium strategy in a general queueing game with a finite action space. The algorithm involves a single simulation of the queueing process with dynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Liron Ravner , Ran I. Snitkovsky

We study a multi-server queueing system with a periodic arrival rate and customers whose joining decision is based on their patience and a delay proxy. Specifically, each customer has a patience level sampled from a common distribution.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Shreehari Anand Bodas , Michel Mandjes , Liron Ravner

We consider the problem of scheduling a queueing system in which many statistically identical servers cater to several classes of impatient customers. Service times and impatience clocks are exponential while arrival processes are renewal.…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rami Atar , Avi Mandelbaum , Martin I. Reiman

Motivated by applications in online marketplaces such as ride-hailing, we study how strategic servers impact the system performance. We consider a discrete-time process in which, heterogeneous types of customers and servers arrive. Each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Sushil Mahavir Varma , Francisco Castro , Siva Theja Maguluri

We address the Nash equilibrium problem in a partial-decision information scenario, where each agent can only observe the actions of some neighbors, while its cost possibly depends on the strategies of other agents. Our main contribution is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Mattia Bianchi , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico

In behavioral economics, human decision makers are modeled as anticipatory agents that make decisions by taking into account the probability of future decisions (plans). We consider cyber-physical systems involving the interaction between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Vikram Krishnamurthy

Understanding how delayed information impacts queueing systems is an important area of research. However, much of the current literature neglects one important feature of many queueing systems, namely non-stationary arrivals. Non-stationary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Jamol Pender , Richard H. Rand , Elizabeth Wesson

In this paper, we investigate the seeking of Nash equilibrium (NE) in a non-cooperative quadratic game where all agents exchange their delayed strategy information with their neighbors. To extend best-response algorithms to the delayed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Kaichen Jiang , Yuyue Yan , Mingda Yue , Yuhu Wu

Power system operators and electric utility companies often impose a coincident peak demand charge on customers when the aggregate system demand reaches its maximum. This charge incentivizes customers to strategically shift their peak usage…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Liudong Chen , Jay Sethuraman , Bolun Xu

Service platforms must determine rules for matching heterogeneous demand (customers) and supply (workers) that arrive randomly over time and may be lost if forced to wait too long for a match. Our objective is to maximize the cumulative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Angelos Aveklouris , Levi DeValve , Maximiliano Stock , Amy R. Ward