Our main objective in this thesis is to support the management of call centers by developing tools and methods to decide on the number of operators required in a call center. We use existing queueing theory models to analyze call centers with several types of calls. In this context the goal is to find the most efficient configurations, i.e. configurations that achieve the best performance at a minimum cost by combining different sorts of operators. Some can only answer calls of one type, others are skilled to treat calls of different types, but at a greater cost. We propose a Branch and Bound method to find the best combinations of operators while keeping the integrality constraints on the number of operators. The latter constraints matter...
Multiple-skill call centers propagate rapidly with the development of telecommunications. An abundan...
A call center is a popular term for a service operation that caters to customers ’ needs via the tel...
In the recent years, the call center industry has been rapidly expanding. The companies are more and...
Background: A call centre usually represents the first contact of a customer with a given company. T...
In the past few years, call centers have been introduced with great success by many service-oriented...
Background: A call centre usually represents the first contact of a customer with a given company. T...
The research on call centres has attracted many researchers from different disciplines recently. In ...
This paper deals with the problem of finding the most suitable contracts to be used when hiring the ...
We synergistically apply queueing theory, integer programming, and stochastic simula-tion to determi...
In recent years, call centres have been considered as an integral part of the modern businesses, si...
A multi-skill staffing problem in a call center where the agent skill sets are exogenous and the cal...
We consider a system with two types of traffic and two types of agents. Outbound calls are served on...
The paper considers the model of a call center in the form of a multi-server queueing system with Po...
Many call centers provide service for customers of different classes with differently qualified gro...
This dissertation treats three operations problems in inbound call centers which are inter-related b...
Multiple-skill call centers propagate rapidly with the development of telecommunications. An abundan...
A call center is a popular term for a service operation that caters to customers ’ needs via the tel...
In the recent years, the call center industry has been rapidly expanding. The companies are more and...
Background: A call centre usually represents the first contact of a customer with a given company. T...
In the past few years, call centers have been introduced with great success by many service-oriented...
Background: A call centre usually represents the first contact of a customer with a given company. T...
The research on call centres has attracted many researchers from different disciplines recently. In ...
This paper deals with the problem of finding the most suitable contracts to be used when hiring the ...
We synergistically apply queueing theory, integer programming, and stochastic simula-tion to determi...
In recent years, call centres have been considered as an integral part of the modern businesses, si...
A multi-skill staffing problem in a call center where the agent skill sets are exogenous and the cal...
We consider a system with two types of traffic and two types of agents. Outbound calls are served on...
The paper considers the model of a call center in the form of a multi-server queueing system with Po...
Many call centers provide service for customers of different classes with differently qualified gro...
This dissertation treats three operations problems in inbound call centers which are inter-related b...
Multiple-skill call centers propagate rapidly with the development of telecommunications. An abundan...
A call center is a popular term for a service operation that caters to customers ’ needs via the tel...
In the recent years, the call center industry has been rapidly expanding. The companies are more and...