Article ID: | iaor20164657 |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 476 |
End Page Number: | 488 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Slikker Marco, van Houtum Geert-Jan, Karsten Frank |
Keywords: | allocation: resources, simulation, queues: applications, game theory |
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 providers may represent such diverse organizations as hospitals that pool beds or maintenance firms that pool repairmen. We model the service systems as Erlang delay systems (