Designing a Call Center with Impatient Customers
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Commissioned Paper: Telephone Call Centers: Tutorial, Review, and Research Prospects
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Dimensioning Large Call Centers
Operations Research
A Method for Staffing Large Call Centers Based on Stochastic Fluid Models
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
A Diffusion Approximation for a GI/GI/1 Queue with Balking or Reneging
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Call Centers with Impatient Customers: Many-Server Asymptotics of the M/M/n + G Queue
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Fluid Models for Multiserver Queues with Abandonments
Operations Research
The Impact of Delay Announcements in Many-Server Queues with Abandonment
Operations Research
Exploiting Market Size in Service Systems
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Shadow-Routing Based Control of Flexible Multiserver Pools in Overload
Operations Research
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We consider queueing systems in which customers arrive according to a Poisson process and have exponentially distributed service requirements. The customers are impatient and may abandon the system while waiting for service after a generally distributed amount of time. The system incurs customer-related costs that consist of waiting and abandonment penalty costs. We study capacity sizing in such systems to minimize the sum of the long-term average customer-related costs and capacity costs. We use fluid models to derive prescriptions that are asymptotically optimal for large customer arrival rates. Although these prescriptions are easy to characterize, they depend intricately upon the distribution of the customers' time to abandon and may prescribe operating in a regime with offered load (the ratio of the arrival rate to the capacity) greater than 1. In such cases, we demonstrate that the fluid prescription is optimal up to O(1). That is, as the customer arrival rate increases, the optimality gap of the prescription remains bounded.