We study the question of scheduling impatient customers in parallel server queuing systems. At the time of arrival, customers can be identified as one of many classes, where the class represents the service time and patience time distributions, and cost characteristics. From the system's...

The traditional operations management and queueing literature typically assume that customers are fully rational. In contrast, in this paper, we study canonical service models with boundedly rational customers.We capture bounded rationality using a model in which customers are incapable of...

In this paper, we explore the impact of delay announcements using an empirical approach by analyzing the data from a medium-sized call center. We first explore the question of whether delay announcements impact customers' behavior using a nonparametric approach. The answer to this question...