In this paper we generalize known workload decomposition results for Lévy queues with secondary jump inputs and queues with server vacations or service interruptions. Special cases are polling systems with either compound Poisson or more general Lévy inputs. Our main tools are new martingale results, which have been derived in a companion paper.

Purpose This study aims to apply theory on consumer learning in virtual experiences compare how media technologies (i.e. reality [VR] and standard websites) users’ gender influence the ways which tourists gather pre-purchase information. Design/methodology/approach A laboratory experiment with fully immersive VR was conducted examine consumers’ behavior gathering The sample comprised 128 consum...

Internet usage has been integrated into most of our activities because of the convenience and accessibility it offers. Arguably, the most common holiday-related online activity users engage in is shopping. Each year, online shoppers troop online to search for the latest promos, coolest gifts, and biggest bargains or to book flights and reservations to go on their dream vacations during the Chri...

This report presents a method for analyzing a queueing model with repeated inhomogeneous vacations. At the end of a vacation, the server goes on another vacation, possibly with a different probability distribution, if during the previous vacation there have been no arrivals. In order to get an insight on the influence of parameters on the performance, we choose to study a simple M/G/1 queue (Po...