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WSC
2008
15 years 2 months ago
Speeding up call center simulation and optimization by Markov chain uniformization
Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
Eric Buist, Wyean Chan, Pierre L'Ecuyer
MANSCI
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Staffing Multiskill Call Centers via Linear Programming and Simulation
We study an iterative cutting-plane algorithm on an integer program, for minimizing the staffing costs of a multiskill call center subject to service-level requirements which are e...
Mehmet Tolga Çezik, Pierre L'Ecuyer
MANSCI
2008
119views more  MANSCI 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Service-Level Differentiation in Call Centers with Fully Flexible Servers
We study large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and many statistically identical servers. The following question is addressed: How many servers are required (s...
Itay Gurvich, Mor Armony, Avishai Mandelbaum
MANSCI
2008
116views more  MANSCI 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Call Center Outsourcing: Coordinating Staffing Level and Service Quality
In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We mo...
Z. Justin Ren, Yong-Pin Zhou
ATAL
1999
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Towards a Distributed, Environment-Centered Agent Framework
Abstract. This paper will discuss the internal architecture for an agent framework called DECAF (Distributed Environment Centered Agent Framework). DECAF is a software toolkit for ...
John R. Graham, Keith Decker