In a tournament, competitors may have the incentive to engage in undesirable activities, or cheating, in order to gain an advantage. Examples of such activities include the taking of steroids, plagiarism, and quot;creative accountingquot;. This paper considers the problem of deterrence of such...

We model competition between two firms selling identical goods to customers who arrive in the market stochastically. Shoppers choose where to purchase based upon both price and the time cost associated with waiting for service. One seller provides two separate queues, each with its own server,...