This paper presents a novel multiagent approach to automating taxi dispatch that services current bookings in a distributed fashion. The existing system in use by a taxi operator i...
We consider an M/G/1 queue with general retrial times where the blocked customers may balk the system, or join the priority queue, or enter the orbit. As soon as a customer is ser...
This paper proposes an approach for evaluating the relationship with a customer, leading to the creation of a Customer Intimacy Grade (CIG), across multiple levels of granularity: ...
The promise of service orientation is that it enables an organization to prosper by delivering continuous value to customers. This prosperity is of strategic value to the organizat...
Arash Golnam, Gil Regev, Julien Ramboz, Philippe L...
This paper studies the optimal resource allocation in time-reservation systems. Customers arrive at a service facility and receive service in two steps; in the first step informa...
Ran Yang, Sandjai Bhulai, Rob van der Mei, Frank J...
We propose a benchmarking technique that is combined with customer's cognitive structures. Customer's cognitive structures are determined using a multi-dimensional scali...
Cheul Rhee, Junghoon Moon, G. Lawrence Sanders, Yo...
: Product customization has become a commonplace topic in the last few years. Cars can be equipped with numerous gadgets, cell phones come in different colours and so on. In all th...
Christoph Wiesen, Thorsten Wunderlich, Robert Mert...
Typical methods in CRM marketing include action selection on the basis of Markov Decision Processes with fixed transition probabilities on the one hand, and scoring customers separ...
We study an extension of the unit-demand pricing problem in which the seller may offer bundles of items. If a customer buys such a bundle she is guaranteed to get one item out of i...
Traditional DSL troubleshooting solutions are reactive, relying mainly on customers to report problems, and tend to be labor-intensive, time consuming, prone to incorrect resoluti...
Yu Jin, Nick G. Duffield, Alexandre Gerber, Patric...