The service pricing strategies and the strategic behavior of customers in an unobservable Markovian queue with unreliable server

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Issue		RAIRO-Oper. Res. Volume 56, Number 1, January-February 2022


Page(s)		213 - 237
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/ro/2021181
Published online		07 February 2022

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