Resource pooling and cost allocation among independent service providers

F Karsten, M Slikker, GJ Van Houtum - Operations Research, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study a situation where several independent service providers collaborate by complete
pooling of their resources and customer streams into a joint service system. These service …

Detection of an appropriate pharmaceutical company to get a suitable vaccine against Covid‐19 with minimum cost under the quality control process

MAA El‐Hadidy, AA Alfreedi - Quality and Reliability …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Some international pharmaceutical companies have succeeded in producing vaccines
against COVID‐19. Countries all over the world have aimed to obtain these vaccines with …

Quality control for a detected an appropriate queue from K‐independent M/M/C/N queueing models

MAA El‐Hadidy - Quality and Reliability Engineering …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we consider a system of K‐independent Markovian queues such that each one
of them has a Poisson arrival process and exponential service time. We assume that every …

Cost sharing for capacity transfer in cooperating queueing systems

Y Zeng, L Zhang, X Cai, J Li - Production and Operations …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
We study the problem where independent operators of queueing systems cooperate to
generate a win–win solution through capacity transfer among each other. We consider two …

Detection model with a maximum discounted effort reward search to maintenance a best decision under the quality control process

M El-Hadidy, M Fakharany - Statistics, Optimization & Information …, 2022 - iapress.org
This paper aims to get a needed service by making the best decision of choosing one
suitable company (queue) from K− independent Markovian queues (companies). The …

Cost sharing of cooperating queues in a Jackson network

J Timmer, W Scheinhardt - Queueing systems, 2013 - Springer
We consider networks of queues in which the independent operators of individual queues
may cooperate to reduce the amount of waiting. More specifically, we focus on Jackson …

Navigating Resource Conflicts: Co-opetition and Fairness

S Singhal - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.04603, 2023 - arxiv.org
In today's dynamic and interconnected world, resource constraints pose significant
challenges across various domains, ranging from networks, logistics and manufacturing to …

Analysis of resource pooling games via a new extension of the Erlang loss function

FJP Karsten, M Slikker, G van Houtum - 2011 - research.tue.nl
We study a situation where several independent service providers collaborate by pooling
their resources into a joint service system. These service providers may represent such …

Intensive care unit/step-down unit queuing game with length of stay decisions

YM Kobara, FF Rodrigues, CPE de Souza… - Operations Research for …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, length of stay (LOS) competition between two servers in tandem without buffer
between them is investigated using queuing games. This system typifies the relationship …

Cooperation and sharing costs in a tandem queueing network

D Bendel, M Haviv - European Journal of Operational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
We consider a tandem network of queues with a Poisson arrival process to the first queue.
Service times are assumed to be exponential. In cases where they are not, we additionally …