Customer Contact Centers or Telephone Call Centers
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Resource Sharing for Efficiency in Traffic Systems.
Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 60, No. 13, January 1981,
pp. 39-55 (with Donald R. "Bob" Smith).
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Heavy-Traffic Limits for Queues with
Many Exponential Servers.
Operations Research, vol. 29, No. 3, May-June 1981,
pp. 567-588 (with Shlomo Halfin).
[published PDF]
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Heavy Traffic Approximations
for Service Systems with Blocking.
AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal,
vol. 63, No. 4, May-June
1984, pp. 689-708.
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The Pointwise Stationary Approximation for
Mt/Mt/s Queues is Asymptotically
Correct as the Rates Increase.
Management Science,
vol. 37, No. 3, 1991, pp. 307-314.
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Understanding the Efficiency of Multi-Server Service Systems.
Management Science, vol. 38, No. 5, 1992, pp. 708-723.
[published PDF]
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Approximations for the GI/G/m Queue.
Production and Operations Management,
vol. 2, No. 2, 1993, pp. 114-161.
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The Physics of The Mt/G/infinity Queue.
Operations Research, vol. 41, No. 4, 1993, pp. 731-742 (with Stephen G. Eick and William A. Massey).
[published PDF]
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Server Staffing to Meet Time-Varying Demand.
Management Science,
vol. 42, No. 10, 1996, pp. 1383-1394
(with Otis B. Jennings, Avishai Mandelbaum and
William A. Massey).
[PostScript]
[PDF]
[published PDF]
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Estimating the Parameters of a Nonhomogeneous
Poisson Process with Linear Rate.
Telecommunication Systems, vol. 5, 1996, pp. 361-388
(with William A. Massey and Geraldine A. Parker).
[PostScript]
[PDF]
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The Time-Dependent Erlang Loss Model with Retrials.
Proceedings of INFORMS Telecommunications Conference,
Telecommunications Systems, R. B. Cooper and
R. Doverspike (eds.), vol. 7, 1997, pp. 253-265
(with Nathaniel Grier, William A. Massey and Tyrone McKoy).
[PostScript]
[PDF]
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Peak Congestion in Multi-Server Service Systems with
Slowly Varying Arrival Rates.
Queueing Systems, vol. 25, 1997, pp. 157-172 (with William A. Massey).
[PDF]
[published PDF]
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Control and Recovery from Rare Congestion Events
in a Large Multi-Server System,.
Queueing Systems, vol. 26, 1997, pp. 69-104 (with Nicholas Duffield).
[published PDF]
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Calculating Transient Characteristics of the Erlang Loss Model by
Numerical Transform Inversion.
Stochastic Models, vol. 14, No. 3, 1998, pp. 663-680
(with Joseph Abate).
[PostScript]
[PDF]
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Periodic Load Balancing.
Queueing Systems, vol. 30, Nos. 1-2, 1998,
pp. 203-250 (with Gísli Hjálmtýsson).
[PostScript]
[PDF]
[published PDF]
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Approximations for Periodic Load Balancing.
37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Tampa, Florida, 1998 (with Gísli Hjálmtýsson).
[published PDF]
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Improving Service By Informing Customers About Anticipated Delays.
Management Science,
vol. 45, No. 2, February 1999, pp. 192-207.
[PostScript]
[PDF]
[published PDF]
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Predicting Queueing Delays.
Management Science, vol. 45, No. 6, June 1999, pp. 870-888.
[published PDF]
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Decomposition Approximations for Time-Dependent
Markovian Queueing Networks.
Operations Research Letters, vol. 24, April 1999, pp. 97-103.
[PostScript]
[PDF]
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Dynamic Staffing in a Telephone Call Center Aiming
to Immediately Answer All Calls.
Operations Research Letters, vol. 24, June 1999, pp. 205-212.
[PostScript]
[PDF]
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Partitioning Customers into Service Groups.
Management Science, vol. 45, No. 11, November 1999, pp. 1579-1592.
[PostScript]
[PDF]
[published PDF]
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Stochastic Models for the Design and Management of Customer Contact Centers:
Some Research Directions..
working paper, March 2002.
[PDF]
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How Multiserver Queues Scale with Growing Congestion-Dependent Demand.
Operations Research, vol. 51, No. 4, 2003, pp. 531-542.
[PostScript]
[PDF]
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A Diffusion Approximation for the G/GI/n/m Queue.
Operations Research, to appear.
[PDF]
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Heavy-Traffic Limits for the G/H2*/n/m Queue.
Mathematics of Operations Research, to appear.
[PDF]
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Engineering Solution of a Basic Call-Center Model.
Management Science, to appear.
[PDF]
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Engineering Solution of a Basic Call-Center Model:
Supplementary Material.
[PDF]
(Extra material related to previous paper.)
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Efficiency-Driven Heavy-Traffic Approximations
for Many-Server Queues with Abandonments.
Management Science, to appear.
[PDF]
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Fluid Models for Many-Server Queues with Abandonments.
Operations Research, to appear.
[PDF]
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A Staffing Algorithm
for Call Centers with Skill-Based Routing.
working paper, 2004. (with Rodney B. Wallace)
[PDF]
Submitted to Manufacturing and Service operations Management.
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A Staffing Algorithm
for Call Centers with Skill-Based Routing:
Supplementary Material.
(with Rodney B. Wallace)
[PDF]
(Extra material related to previous paper.)
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Two Fluid Approximations for Multi-Server Queues with Abandonments.
Operations Research Letters, to appear.
[PDF]
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Staffing a Call Center with Uncertain Arrival Rate and Absenteeism.
working paper, 2004.
[PDF]
Submitted to Management Science.
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Sensitivity of Performance in the Erlang A Model
to Changes in the Model Parameters.
working paper, 2004.
[PDF]
Submitted to Operations Research.
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