We develop variations of the M|G|1 queue to model the process of software maintenance within organizations and use these models to compute the optimal allocation of resources to software maintenance. User requests are assumed to arrive following a Poisson process and a binomial distribution is...

The (relative) cost of the customer’s waiting time has long been used as a key parameter in queueing models, but it can be difficult to estimate. Recently, Singhal, Singhal, and Kumar (2019) introduce a new queue characteristic, the value of the customer’s waiting time, which measures how an...