Title :
Optimal pricing strategy for queuing systems with balking loss and reneging loss
Author :
Liao, Pen-Yuan ; Tyan, Leewen
Author_Institution :
Nat. United Univ., Miaoli
Abstract :
The lost profit from lost business is quite difficult to be estimated for the queuing systems with cyclic demands. My previous work presented a creative and effective approach to formulate waiting cost as balking loss plus reneging loss. Using the estimation of waiting cost may allow decision makers to have the capability to determine the optimal number of servers for each planning period. Unfortunately, some queuing systems have trouble in extending the number of servers to earn more profit. Hence, an alternative way, the optimal pricing strategy, can be used to solve this capacity constraint problem. In this paper, the balking index and reneging index are introduced and formulated with discount level as three key parameters on maximizing the total profit.
Keywords :
planning; pricing; queueing theory; balking loss; lost profit; optimal pricing strategy; planning period; queuing systems; reneging loss; waiting cost; Banking; Cost function; Credit cards; Delay; Engineering management; Pricing; Queueing analysis; Steady-state; Technology management; Telephony; Balking loss; Optimal pricing strategy; Queuing theory; Reneging loss;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2007 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1529-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1529-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419490