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).
[published PDF]
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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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On the Heavy-Traffic Limit Theorem
For GI/G/infinity Queues.
Advances in Applied Probability, vol. 14, No. 1,
March 1982, pp. 171-190.
[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.
[published PDF]
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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.
[published PDF]
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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).
[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).
[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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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.
[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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The Erlang B and C Formulas:
Problems and Solutions..
class notes, 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, vol. 52, No. 6, November-December 2004, pp. 922-941.
[publishedPDF]
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Heavy-Traffic Limits for the G/H2*/n/m Queue.
Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 30, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 1-27.
[published PDF]
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Engineering Solution of a Basic Call-Center Model.
Management Science, vol. 51, No. 2, February 2005, pp. 221-235.
[published 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, vol. 50, No. 10, October 2004, pp. 1449-1461.
[PDF].
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Fluid Models for Multiserver Queues with Abandonments.
Operations Research, vol. 54, No. 1, 2006, pp. 37-54
[published PDF].
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Two Fluid Approximations for Multi-Server Queues with Abandonments.
Operations Research Letters, vol. 33, 2005, pp. 363-372.
[published PDF]
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A Staffing Algorithm for Call Centers with Skill-Based Routing.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), vol. 7, 2005, pp. 276-294
(with Rodney B. Wallace).
[published PDF]
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A Staffing Algorithm for Call Centers with Skill-Based Routing:
Supplementary Material.
(Extra material related to previous paper), 2004.
(with Rodney B. Wallace).
[PDF]
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A Multi-Class Fluid Model for a Contact Center with Skill-Based Routing.
International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU),
Vol. 60, No. 2, 2006, pp. 95-102,
[published PDF].
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Fluid Models for Multiserver Queues with Abandonments.
Operations Research, vol. 54, No. 1, 2006, pp. 37-54
[published PDF].
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Sensitivity of Performance in the Erlang A Model
to Changes in the Model Parameters.
Operations Research, vol. 54, No. 2, 2006, pp. 247-260
[published PDF].
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Staffing a Call Center with Uncertain Arrival Rate and Absenteeism.
Production and Operations Management, vol. 15, No. 1, 2006, pp. 88-102.
[published PDF].
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The Impact of Increased Employee Retention Upon Performance
in a Customer Contact Center.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), vol. 8, No. 3,
Summer 2006, pp. 221-234.
[PDF]
[published PDF].
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Coping with Time-Varying Demand when Setting Staffing Requirements for a Service
System.
Production and Operations Management (POMS), vol. 16, No. 1, January-February 2007, pp. 13-39.
(with Linda V. Green and Peter J. Kolesar).
[PDF]
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Value-Based Routing and Preference-Based Routing
in Customer Contact Centers.
Production and Operations Management, vol. 16, No. 3, May-June 2007, pp. 277-291.
(with Michael E. Sisselman)
[PDF].
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A Preference-Based-Routing Example
Solved by Linear Programming with Excel Solver.
Supporting material for the paper above, 2005.
[PDF].
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Empowering Customer-Contact Agents Via
Preference-Based Routing.
SeatLink White Paper paper, 2005.
(with Michael E. Sisselman)
[PDF].
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What You Should Know About Queueing Models
to Set Staffing Requirements in Service Systems.
Naval Research Logistics vol. 54, No. 5, August 2007, pp. 476-484.
[PDF].
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Staffing of Time-Varying Queues to Achieve
Time-Stable Performance.
working paper, 2004. Revised 2005.
Management Science, forthcoming.
(with Zohar Feldman, Avishai Mandelbaum and Bill Massey)
[PDF].
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Staffing of Time-Varying Queues to Achieve
Time-Stable Performance, Unabridged Version:
Internet Supplement.
working paper, 2005.
(with Zohar Feldman, Avishai Mandelbaum and Bill Massey)
[PDF].
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The Impact of Delay Announcements in Many-Server Queues with
Abandonment.
working paper, 2005.
Submitted to Operations Research.
(with Mor Armony and Nahum Shimkin).
[PDF]
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The Impact of Delay Announcements in Many-Server Queues with
Abandonment: Supplementary Material.
working paper, 2005. Supporting material for paper with same title.
(with Mor Armony and Nahum Shimkin).
[PDF]
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Queue-and-Idleness-Ratio Controls in Many-Server Service Systems..
Submitted to Mathematics of Operations Research.
(with Itay Gurvich)
[PDF].
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Service-Level Differentiation in Many-Server Service Systems:
A Solution Based on Fixed-Queue-Ratio Routing.
Submitted to Operations Research.
(with Itay Gurvich)
[PDF].
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Scheduling Flexible Servers with Convex Delay Costs in Many-Server
Service Systems.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management), forthcoming.
(with Itay Gurvich)
[PDF].
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Martingale Proofs of Many-Server Heavy-Traffic Limits for
Markovian Queues.
Probability Surveys, vol. 4, 2007, pp. 193-267. (with Guodong Pang and Rishi Talreja)
[PDF]. Alternative sources: DOI link.
arXiv link.
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Proofs of the Martingale FCLT.
Probability Surveys, vol. 4, 2007, pp. 268-302.
[PDF].
Alternative sources: DOI link.
arXiv link.
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Fluid Models for Overloaded Multi-Class Many-Server Queueing Systems
with FCFS Routing.
Management Science, forthcoming.
(with Rishi Talreja)
[PDF].
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Fluid Models for Overloaded Multi-Class Many-Server Queueing Systems
with FCFS Routing: Internet supplement.
Supporting material for paper with same title.
(with Rishi Talreja)
[PDF].
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Real-Time Delay Estimation Based on Delay History.
Submitted to Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
(with Rouba Ibrahim)
[PDF].
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Supplement to "Real-Time Delay Estimation Based on Delay History."
Supporting material for paper above.
(with Rouba Ibrahim)
[PDF].
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A Routing Policy for the X Call-Center Model Designed to Respond to Unexpected Overloads.
Submitted to Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
(with Ohad Perry)
[PDF].
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