The Impact of a Waiting-Time Threshold in Overflow Systems with Impatient Customers


Stolletz, Raik ; Manitz, Michael



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2012.05.001
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2013
The title of a journal, publication series: Omega : The International Journal of Management Science
Volume: 41
Issue number: 2
Page range: 280-286
Place of publication: Oxford
Publishing house: Elsevier
ISSN: 0305-0483 , 1873-5274
Publication language: English
Institution: Business School > ABWL u. Produktion (Stolletz 2010-)
Subject: 650 Management
Keywords (English): Service Operations , Queueing , Call Center , Overflow , Impatient Customers , Markov Chain
Abstract: This paper analyzes the performance of call centers with impatient customers, two levels of support, and an overflow mechanism. Waiting calls from the front-office queue—if not reneging—are sent to the back office if at least one back-office agent is available and if a certain threshold t on the waiting time is reached. We approximate such systems via a continuous-time Markov chain that allows for overflow immediately upon arrival. Two different approaches for the derivation of the respective probability of an overflow are developed. Numerical results compare the reliability of these Markovian performance approximations for different parameter settings. The impact of the threshold t on different performance measures is shown dependent on the impatience of customers.




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