• 한국품질경영학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국품질경영학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.14-19
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• 2006

This study examined the effect of waiting in a service queue on the evaluation of service quality focused on its overall process, mediators and moderators The conceptual model of this paper integrates key variables derived from previous studies of consumer waiting behavior. Data obtained from actual customers in service queue at a hospital was used to test the theoretical framework. First, results from the path analysis confirm that negative affect and acceptability of the wait function as mediators in the process that the perceived duration of the wait affects customer's evaluation of overall service quality. Second, the analysis of the data, with the use of moderate regression shows that disconfirmation of wait time expectations, transaction importance, stability of wait time and wait environment work as moderate variables for the relationship between perceived duration of wait and negative affect. For the relationship between perceived wait time and acceptability of the wait, on the other hand, only transaction import ante shows a significant effect as a moderator.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.369-376
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• 2014

The national Logistics Information system has been rapidly developed on account of the dramatic improvements in the military's logistics support system and supply support system, making a transition from manual work system to computerized work system. Supply level, however, does not reflect these changes in the overall logistics environment and still retains the state it was in the 1970s. This research uses the accumulated data from the equipment maintenance information system developed in the year 2009 to analyze RWT(Requisition Wait Time) and CWT (Customer Wait Time). The analysis estimated the realistic transportation and ordering time and led to the conclusion that the differentiated ASL operation system that considers demand level should be adopted instead of the uniform ASL employment system.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2019

Purpose - Although an extensive body of research in psychology and marketing focuses on perceived waiting time, no research has examined the effect of the location of the waiting place on perceived waiting time. In particular, this study suggests that customers who are waiting in a restaurant may have different perceived waiting time depending on whether they are in close proximity to the service area (e.g., dining area) or farther from it. In particular, the author examines how and why the location of the waiting place affects the perceived waiting time of the consumer and reveals the mental simulation as its psychological mechanism. Research design, data, and methodology - This study conducted field surveys with customers waiting in real restaurants. Eighty-eight people participated under two conditions: a restaurant with a waiting place near the dining area and a restaurant with a waiting place far from the dining area. Participants responded to questions about perceived waiting time (the dependent variable), mental simulation (the mediator), and demographic variables. To verify the hypothesis, ANOVA and bootstrapping analysis were performed. Results - The major results from the field study are as follows. First, participants perceived wait time differently depending on the location of the restaurant's waiting place: participants in the restaurant with a waiting place close to the dining area perceived significantly shorter waiting times. Second, the effect of the location of the waiting place on the perceived waiting time was mediated by mental simulation: the closer the wait location is to the dining area, the more imagination the customer exercises about the meal, which in turn distracts attention from time flow and shortens the perceived wait time. Conclusion - This study has a theoretical implication in that it extends research on perceived waiting time as the first study of how and why the location of a waiting place affects a customer's perceived waiting time. It has a practical implication that can be used as a marketing tactics to improve the image of the service provider by changing the location of the waiting place.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-30
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• 2010

서비스를 구매하기 위해 고객들은 자주 대기를 경험하게 된다. 고객은 대기로 인해 불만족을 느끼고 서비스 장소를 이탈할 수도 있기 때문에 서비스 제공자가 대기시간을 관리하는 것은 중요하다. 이를 위해 대기시간에 관한 연구가 다양하게 진행되어 왔다. 그 결과, 서비스 제공 단계별 대기시간 연구, 실제와 지각된 대기시간에 대한 연구, 대기를 경험하는데 영향을 미치는 대기환경과 대기정보 등 매개변수에 대한 연구, 고객의 특성에 따른 대기경험의 차이 연구 등을 통해 고객의 대기경험을 개선시키고자 하였다. 본 연구에서는 Hui and Tse(1996)가 제시한 고객의 행동적 메커니즘의 평가적 요소, 즉 지각된 대기시간, 대기수용정도, 대기에 대한 감정적 반응을 고객이 대기할 때 경험한다는 것을 바탕으로 서비스 제공자가 대기 시점에서 통제하기 어려운 고객의 개인적 요소들(고객충성도, 거래중요도, 대기기대수준)이 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 실제 대기상황(패밀리 레스토랑, 놀이공원)에서 탐색적 연구를 하였다. 두 번의 실험을 진행한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 레스토랑에서 조사한 결과, 고객의 거래중요도가 대기경험에 긍정적으로 미치는 영향이 큰 것으로 나타났다. 이는 레스토랑의 서비스 제공자가 고객의 거래중요도를 높일 수 있는 전략을 통해 고객의 이탈을 효과적으로 방지할 수 있음을 시사한다. 둘째, 놀이공원에서 조사한 결과는 거래중요도뿐만 아니라 고객충성도가 대기경험에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이를 통해, 놀이공원의 서비스 제공자는 지속적으로 고객충성도를 높일 수 있는 전략을 통해 필연적으로 발생하는 대기에 대한 고객의 불만을 최소화할 수 있음을 시사한다. 위의 연구결과는 서비스 장소의 특성에 따라 고객이 대기를 다르게 경험하기 때문에 서비스 제공자는 해당 서비스 장소에 따라 고객특성을 파악하여 이를 강화, 개선해 대기시간을 관리하는 것이 효과적일 수 있음을 시사한다. 셋째, 지금까지 대부분의 연구에서 조절적인 변수로 취급되었던 거래중요도, 대기기대수준 등의 고객 특성이 대기경험에 영향을 미치는 주요 독립 변수로 연구됨으로써 대기경험에 직접적인 영향을 미칠 수 있다는 것을 밝혔다. 즉, 획일화된 서비스전략이 모든 고객을 만족시키지 못하기 때문에, 고객의 개인적 요소들에 따라 대기경험에도 차이가 생길 수 있음을 감안한 마케팅 전략이 필요하다. 또한, 대기시간 연구에서 다루어지지 않았던 고객충성도가 대기경험에 미친다는 것도 알아내었다. 고객충성도는 중·장기의 긍정적인 서비스 경험에 의해 형성되는 것이기 때문에 누적되는 고객만족의 중요성을 위해 대기시간 관리에서 중요한 개념이라고 할 수 있다. 넷째, 실제 대기시간과 대기경험 간의 관계에서 지금까지 대기시간 연구들이 지각된 대기시간을 위주로 연구해왔으나, 실제 대기시간이 대기경험에 미치는 영향도 주목할 필요가 있다는 것을 밝혔다. 특히, 본 연구에서는 한계 대기시간과 함께 실제 대기시간의 영향력을 알아봄으로써, 동일한 실제 대기시간에도 개인이 느끼는 한계 대기시간에 따라 대기경험에 다양한 반응이 있음을 알 수 있었다. 마지막으로, 대기경험 간의 관계에 있어서도 Hui and Tse(1996)의 연구와 달리 고객은 대기시간을 지각하면, 이에 대한 수용여부를 결정하고, 대기상황에 대한 감정적 반응을 한다는 어느 정도의 방향성을 발견할 수 있었다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.89-94
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• 2001

There are many queueing systems where customers wait for service up to a certain amount of time and leave the system if they are not served during that time. This paper considers a finite capacity multi-server queueing system with Poisson input and Erlang service time, where a customer becomes a lost customer when his service has not begun within an exponential patient time after his arrival. Performance measures such as average queue length, the average number of customers in service, and the proportion of lost customers can be obtained exactly through the proposed numerical solution procedure.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.489-497
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• 2000

The M/M/1 queue with impatient customers is studied. Impatient customers wait for service only for limited time K/0 and leave the system if their services do not start during that time. Notice that in the analysis of virtual waiting time, the impatient customer can be considered as the customer who enters the system only when his/her waiting time does not exceed K. In this paper, we apply martingale methods to the virtual waiting time and obtain the expected period from origin to the point where the virtual waiting time crosses over K or reaches 0, and the variance of this period. With this results, we obtain the expected busy period of the queue, the distribution, expectation and variance of the number of times the virtual waiting time exceeding level K during a busy period, and the probability of there being no impatient customers in a busy period.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.47-68
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• 2010

One of the important complaint factors by the patients using medical institutions is various kinds of waiting time. This research is about the causal relationships among waiting time(application of waiting time, perceived of waiting time, fairness of waiting, explanation of the delay, acceptance possibility), service values, and customer satisfaction. The subjects for this study were 256 out-patients currently using seven general hospitals in the Busan area. The findings of the empirical analysis are as follows: First, the good application of waiting time or fair waiting time procedure didn't actually affect perceived waiting time. Second, though the application of waiting time didn't affect acceptance possibility, the fair procedure of waiting time had an affirmative effect on acceptance possibility. Third, even when there was enough explanation about the need to wait, it could shorten perceived waiting time but failed to get sufficient sympathy or agreement from the patients. Fourth, the possibility of acceptance following the sufficient sympathy of patients had an effect on shortening perceived waiting time. Fifth, perceived waiting time lowered customer satisfaction, but had no negative effect on service values. Finally, the ranges of acceptance possibility by the patients were found to increase customer satisfaction and maximize service values. In conclusion, every medical institution needs to focus on, first of all, shortening waiting time for more customer satisfaction and improved service values.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제7권2S호
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• pp.577-593
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• 2000

A distributed video-on-demand (VoD) system is one where collection of video data is located at dispersed sites across a computer network. In a single site environment, a local video server retrieves video data from its local storage device. However, in the setting of a distributed VoD system, when a customer requests a movie from the local server, the server may need to interact with other servers located across the network. In this paper, we present three types of presentation plans that a local server must construct in order to satisfy the customer request. Informally speaking, a presentation plan is a temporally synchronized detailed sequence of steps that the local server must perform for presenting the requested movie to the customer. This involves obtaining commitments from other video servers, obtaining commitments from the network service provider, as well as making commitments of local resources, within the limitations of available bandwidth, available buffer, and customer data consumption rates. Furthermore, for evaluating the goodness of a presentation plan, we introduce two measures of optimality for presentation plans: minimizing wait time for a customer, and minimizing access bandwidth is used. We develop algorithms to compute optimal presentation plans for all three types, and carry out extensive experiments to compare their performance. We have also mathematically proved certain results for the presentation plans that had previously been verified experimentally in the literature.

• 산업공학
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.183-190
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• 1998

This paper is concerned with the bicriteria vehicle routing problems with time window constraints(BVRPTW). The BVRPTW is to determine the most favorable vehicle routes that minimize the total vehicle travel time and the total customer wait time which are, more often than not, conflicting. We construct a linear goal programming (GP) model for the BVRPTW and propose a heuristic algorithm to relieve a computational burden inherent to the application of the GP model. The heuristic algorithm consists of a parallel insertion method for clustering and a sequential linear goal programming procedure for routing. The results of computational experiments showed that the proposed algorithm finds successfully more favorable solutions than the Potvin an Rousseau's method that is known as a very good heuristic for the VRPs with time window constraints, through the change of target values and the decision maker's goal priority structure.

• 산업공학
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• 제16권spc호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2003

In this paper we study the delivery policy of internet bookstores and recommend the improved policy to increase customer satisfaction and sales revenue. We classify customers into two, the price-sensitive and the delivery time-sensitive, and develop a new shipping method, the unhurried shipping, for the price-sensitive who are reluctant to pay shipping fee for the small purchase but willing to wait extra time for the ordered goods. The customers could get discount on shipping fee by the unhurried shipping but have to accept the longer delivery lead-time. We investigate the possible ways to reduce costs with the prolonged delivery time and show that some costs regarding shipmentand inventory could be saved in order to make up for additional shipping costs for the price-sensitive.