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Inhomogeneous CTMC Model of a Call Center with Balking and Abandonment

2015/04/29 by Maciej Rafal Burak
Computer Science · #cs.PF

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published as Studia Informatica, Vol 36, No 2 (2015):23-34, jun 2015 · submitted to Studia Informatica (http://studiainformatica.polsl.pl/). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1410.0804

arxiv created 2015/04/29 · arxiv updated 2015/06/26

Abstract

This paper considers a nonstationary multiserver queuing model with abandonment and balking for inbound call centers. We present a continuous time Markov chain (CTMC) model which captures the important characteristics of an inbound call center and obtain a numerical solution for its transient state probabilities using uniformization method with steady-state detection. Keywords: call center, transient, Markov processes, numerical methods, uniformization, abandonment, balking

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