Robust and Data-Driven Approaches to Call Centers

We propose both robust and data-driven approaches to a fluid model of call centers that incorporates random arrival rates with abandonment to determine staff levels and dynamic routing policies. We test the resulting models with real data obtained from the call center of a US bank. Computational res...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bertsimas, Dimitris J., Doan, Xuan Vinh
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71669
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-1003