Controlling arrival and service rates to reduce sensitivity of queueing systems with customer abandonment

The Erlang A model – an M/M/s queue with exponential abandonment – is often used to represent a service system with impatient customers. For this system, the popular square-root staffing rule determines the necessary staffing level to achieve the desirable QED (quality-and-efficiency-driven) service...

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Main Authors: Katsunobu Sasanuma, Robert Hampshire, Alan Scheller-Wolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-03-01
Series:Results in Control and Optimization
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666720721000503