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Conference Paper: Inducing optimal service capacities via performance-based allocation of demand in a queueing system with multiple servers
Title | Inducing optimal service capacities via performance-based allocation of demand in a queueing system with multiple servers |
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Keywords | Game theory Queueing system Threshold allocation |
Issue Date | 2010 |
Publisher | IEEE. The Journal's web site is located at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1800022 |
Citation | The 40th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, (CIE 2010), Hyogo, Japan, 25-28 July 2010. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2010, p. 1-6 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In this paper, we study the use of performance-based allocation of demand in a multiple-server queueing system. The same problem with two servers have been studied in the literature. Specifically, it has been proposed and proved that the linear allocation and mixed threshold allocation policies are, respectively, the optimal state-independent and state-dependent allocation policy in the two-server case. The multiple-server linear allocation has also been shown to be the optimal state-independent policy with multiple servers. In our study, we focus on the use of a multiple-server mixed threshold allocation policy to replicate the demand allocation of a given state-independent policy to achieve a symmetric equilibrium with lower expected sojourn time. Our results indicate that, for any given multiple-server state-independent policy that prohibits server overloading, there exists a multiple-server mixed threshold policy that gives the same demand allocation and thus have the same Nash equilibrium (if any). Moreover, such a policy can be designed so that the expected sojourn time at a symmetric equilibrium is minimized. Therefore, our results concur with previous two-server results and affirm that a trade-off between incentives and efficiency need not exist in the case of multiple servers. |
Description | Theme: Soft Computing Techniques for Advanced Manufacturing and Service Systems |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/126238 |
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dc.contributor.author | Choi, SM | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Huang, X | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Ching, WK | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-31T12:17:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-10-31T12:17:25Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | The 40th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, (CIE 2010), Hyogo, Japan, 25-28 July 2010. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2010, p. 1-6 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-142447295-6 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/126238 | - |
dc.description | Theme: Soft Computing Techniques for Advanced Manufacturing and Service Systems | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we study the use of performance-based allocation of demand in a multiple-server queueing system. The same problem with two servers have been studied in the literature. Specifically, it has been proposed and proved that the linear allocation and mixed threshold allocation policies are, respectively, the optimal state-independent and state-dependent allocation policy in the two-server case. The multiple-server linear allocation has also been shown to be the optimal state-independent policy with multiple servers. In our study, we focus on the use of a multiple-server mixed threshold allocation policy to replicate the demand allocation of a given state-independent policy to achieve a symmetric equilibrium with lower expected sojourn time. Our results indicate that, for any given multiple-server state-independent policy that prohibits server overloading, there exists a multiple-server mixed threshold policy that gives the same demand allocation and thus have the same Nash equilibrium (if any). Moreover, such a policy can be designed so that the expected sojourn time at a symmetric equilibrium is minimized. Therefore, our results concur with previous two-server results and affirm that a trade-off between incentives and efficiency need not exist in the case of multiple servers. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | IEEE. The Journal's web site is located at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1800022 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | 40th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering: Soft Computing Techniques for Advanced Manufacturing and Service Systems, CIE40 2010 | en_HK |
dc.rights | ©2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. | - |
dc.subject | Game theory | en_HK |
dc.subject | Queueing system | en_HK |
dc.subject | Threshold allocation | en_HK |
dc.title | Inducing optimal service capacities via performance-based allocation of demand in a queueing system with multiple servers | en_HK |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Ching, WK:wching@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Ching, WK=rp00679 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/ICCIE.2010.5668332 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-78651459986 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 175378 | en_HK |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-78651459986&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 6 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.description.other | The 40th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, (CIE 2010), Hyogo, Japan, 25-28 July 2010. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2010, p. 1-6 | - |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Choi, SM=26435077400 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Huang, X=36617352800 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Ching, WK=13310265500 | en_HK |