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TELSYS
2002
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The Analysis of Queues with Time-Varying Rates for Telecommunication Models
Abstract. Time dependent behavior has an impact on the performance of telecommunication models. Examples include: staffing a call center, pricing the inventory of private line serv...
William A. Massey
WSC
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Sensitivity of Output Performance Measures to Input Distributions in Queueing Network Modeling
In Gross and Juttijudata (1997) a single node, G/G/1 queue was investigated as to the sensitivity of output performance measures, such as the mean queue wait, to the shape of the ...
Donald Gross, Denise M. Bevilacqua Masi
QUESTA
2011
12 years 10 months ago
Queues with waiting time dependent service
Motivated by service levels in terms of the waiting-time distribution seen in e.g. call centers, we consider two models for systems with a service discipline that depends on the w...
René Bekker, G. M. Koole, B. F. Nielsen, T....
QUESTA
2007
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Queues with system disasters and impatient customers when system is down
Consider a system (e.g. a computer farm or a call center) operating as a M/M/c queue, where c = 1, or 1 < c < ∞, or c = ∞. The system as a whole suffers disastrous break...
Uri Yechiali
MANSCI
2008
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Staffing of Time-Varying Queues to Achieve Time-Stable Performance
Continuing research by Jennings, Mandelbaum, Massey and Whitt (1996), we investigate methods to perform time-dependent staffing for many-server queues. Our aim is to achieve time-...
Zohar Feldman, Avishai Mandelbaum, William A. Mass...