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This paper analyzes a finite-capacity GI/M/2/N queue with two heterogeneous servers operating under a multiple working-vacation policy, Bernoulli feedback, and customer impatience. Using the supplementary-variable technique in tandem with a tailored recursive scheme, we derive the stationary distributions of the system size as observed at pre-arrival instants and at arbitrary epochs. From these, we obtain explicit expressions for key performance metrics, including blocking probability, average reneging rate, mean queue length, mean sojourn time, throughput, and server utilizations. We then embed these metrics in an economic cost function and determine service-rate settings that minimize the total expected cost via the Bat Algorithm. Numerical experiments implemented in R validate the analysis and quantify the managerial impact of the vacation, feedback, and impatience parameters through sensitivity studies. The framework accommodates general renewal arrivals (GI), thereby extending classical (M/M/2/N) results to more realistic input processes while preserving computational tractability. Beyond methodological interest, the results yield actionable design guidance: (i) they separate Palm and time-stationary viewpoints cleanly under non-Poisson input, (ii) they retain heterogeneity throughout all formulas, and (iii) they provide a cost–optimization pipeline that can be deployed with routine numerical effort. Methodologically, we (i) characterize the generator of the augmented piecewise–deterministic Markov process and prove the existence/uniqueness of the stationary law on the finite state space, (ii) derive an explicit Palm–time conversion formula valid for non-Poisson input, (iii) show that the boundary-value recursion for the Laplace–Stieltjes transforms runs in linear time O(N) and is numerically stable, and (iv) provide influence-function (IPA) sensitivities of performance metrics with respect to (μ1,μ2,ν,α,ϕ,β).

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Cost Optimization in a GI/M/2/N Queue with Heterogeneous Servers, Working Vacations, and Impatient Customers via the Bat Algorithm
Author
Guendouzi Abdelhak 1 ; Bouzebda Salim 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Institute of Science, University Center of Aflou, B. P. 603, Aflou 03001, Algeria 
 Université de Technologie de Compiègne, LMAC (Laboratory of Applied Mathematics of Compiègne), CS 60 319, 60 203 Compiègne, France 
Publication title
Volume
13
Issue
21
First page
3559
Number of pages
35
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
MDPI AG
Place of publication
Basel
Country of publication
Switzerland
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e-ISSN
22277390
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
Document type
Journal Article
Publication history
 
 
Online publication date
2025-11-06
Milestone dates
2025-09-19 (Received); 2025-11-04 (Accepted)
Publication history
 
 
   First posting date
06 Nov 2025
ProQuest document ID
3271047264
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/cost-optimization-i-gi-m-2-n-queue-with/docview/3271047264/se-2?accountid=208611
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Last updated
2025-11-12
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