How to manage a queuing system with one arrival and several service
processes
? Such a request for optimization requires to fix the
criteria of satisfaction that are to be faced with. Service efficiency,
customer effective efficiency and customer perceived fairness are
usually among these criteria.
The customer's opinion differs from the manager's one, because of
psychological reasons since decisions are to be taken in uncertain
and imprecise environment, the "laws" of probability
being only guessed. But this occurs also because both opinions are
not based on the same averaging process. Customer averages -noted
- are processed on a "one man, one vote"
basis, while managers are mostly using time averages -noted
-
that are processed on a "one clock tick, one vote"
basis[1].
Moreover, it appears that the focus is not on the same properties
of the sojourn time
. Manager's answer depends mainly on
exhaustivity and
, while customer's answer depends mainly
on fairness and
.
This paper is organized as follows. Notations and assumptions will
be given in Section 2, as well as the method used
to obtain fuzzy intervals around the quantities of interest. In Section 3
and Section 4 the respective perceptions
of managers and customers are compared using simulations of
queuing systems. Thereafter, Section 5
will examine the behavior of these properties when global parameters
are changed, the load and the shape of arrivals among them. The paper
ends with a concluding Section.