Profit analysis and equilibrium customer joining strategies for single server triple orbit retrial queue

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Issue		RAIRO-Oper. Res. Volume 60, Number 2, March-April 2026


Page(s)		697 - 728
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/ro/2026010
Published online		10 April 2026

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