Zhang, Zhe George; Luh, Hsing Paul; Wang, Chia-Hung - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 11, pp. 1979-1995
Motivated by the waiting lines between the U.S.-Canadian border crossings, we investigate a security-check system with both security and customer service goals. In such a system, every customer has to be inspected by the first-stage inspector, but only a proportion of customers need to go...