Paper Info
Title
On A Multiple Priorities Matching System With Heterogeneous Delay Sensitive Individuals
Abstract
In this paper, we study the equilibrium strategies of heterogeneous delay sensitive individuals in matching systems. Take customers as the research object. The priorities hinge on the magnitude of customers' admission fee. Before entering the system where there are no servers, customers will make a two-stage strategy. First, customers should determine an optimal additional fee to pursue the optimal utilities, i.e., the so-called additional payment strategy. Then, they decide whether to join or not. We primarily give some necessary conditions for the equilibrium. As regards the heterogeneity of customers in delay sensitivity, both of the non-atomic continuous and atomic discrete types of customers are discussed, respectively. Applying the sequential approach, we capture the unique equilibrium for both cases. Specially, for the non-atomic continuous type of customers, the incoming ones adopt the pure additional payment strategy at equilibrium. While for the atomic discrete type of customers, the equilibrium additional payment strategies for incoming ones become mixed-type. It is found that the equilibrium additional fee and flexible cost for each incoming customer are both decreasing in fundamental payment. Finally, we use the particle swarm algorithm to consider the optimal social revenue when the incoming ones from both sides are strategic. (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.amc.2020.125873
APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Matching queueing system, Heterogeneity in delay sensitivity, Two-stage strategy, Non-atomic continuous, Atomic discrete type, Particle swarm algorithm
Journal
395
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0096-3003
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xudong Chai112619.46
Tao Jiang221144.26
Baoxian Chang300.34
Liwei Liu47711.86