Purpose: The objective of this paper was to determine the actual needs of customers in 3 groups: passenger cars, buses, and truck refrigerators who bring their vehicles to the Service Center to be air conditioner repaired. Design/methodology/approach: We investigated at how variables including...

Consider a situation where a service provider serves two types of customers, sophisticated and naive. Sophisticated customers are well-informed of service-related information and make their joining-or-balking decisions strategically, whereas naive customers do not have such information and rely...

This paper investigates an optimal sequencing and dynamic pricing prob- lem for a two-class queueing system. Using a Markov Decision Process based model, we obtain structural characterizations of optimal policies. In particular, it is shown that the optimal pricing policy depends on the entire...

This article studies the optimal prices and service quality grades that a queuing system --- the "firm” --- provides to heterogeneous, utility-maximizing customers who measure quality by their experienced delay distributions. Results are threefold: First, delay cost curves are introduced that...