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Server Staffing to Meet Time-Varying Demand

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  1. Merve Bodur & James R. Luedtke, 2017. "Mixed-Integer Rounding Enhanced Benders Decomposition for Multiclass Service-System Staffing and Scheduling with Arrival Rate Uncertainty," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 63(7), pages 2073-2091, July.
  2. Zohar Feldman & Avishai Mandelbaum & William A. Massey & Ward Whitt, 2008. "Staffing of Time-Varying Queues to Achieve Time-Stable Performance," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 54(2), pages 324-338, February.
  3. Jerome Niyirora & Jamol Pender, 2016. "Optimal staffing in nonstationary service centers with constraints," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 63(8), pages 615-630, December.
  4. Júlíus Atlason & Marina A. Epelman & Shane G. Henderson, 2008. "Optimizing Call Center Staffing Using Simulation and Analytic Center Cutting-Plane Methods," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 54(2), pages 295-309, February.
  5. Yongkyu Cho & Young Myoung Ko, 2020. "Stabilizing the virtual response time in single-server processor sharing queues with slowly time-varying arrival rates," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 293(1), pages 27-55, October.
  6. Ward Whitt, 2006. "Staffing a Call Center with Uncertain Arrival Rate and Absenteeism," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 15(1), pages 88-102, March.
  7. Izady, Navid & Worthington, Dave, 2012. "Setting staffing requirements for time dependent queueing networks: The case of accident and emergency departments," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 219(3), pages 531-540.
  8. Achal Bassamboo & J. Michael Harrison & Assaf Zeevi, 2006. "Design and Control of a Large Call Center: Asymptotic Analysis of an LP-Based Method," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 54(3), pages 419-435, June.
  9. Noah Gans & Ger Koole & Avishai Mandelbaum, 2003. "Telephone Call Centers: Tutorial, Review, and Research Prospects," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 5(2), pages 79-141, September.
  10. M C Testik & J K Cochran & G C Runger, 2004. "Adaptive server staffing in the presence of time-varying arrivals: a feed-forward control approach," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 55(3), pages 233-239, March.
  11. Ward Whitt, 2007. "What you should know about queueing models to set staffing requirements in service systems," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 54(5), pages 476-484, August.
  12. Rouba Ibrahim & Mor Armony & Achal Bassamboo, 2017. "Does the Past Predict the Future? The Case of Delay Announcements in Service Systems," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 63(6), pages 1762-1780, June.
  13. Carri W. Chan & Jing Dong & Linda V. Green, 2017. "Queues with Time-Varying Arrivals and Inspections with Applications to Hospital Discharge Policies," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 65(2), pages 469-495, April.
  14. Omar EL-Rifai & Thierry Garaix & Vincent Augusto & Xiaolan Xie, 2015. "A stochastic optimization model for shift scheduling in emergency departments," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 18(3), pages 289-302, September.
  15. Mor Armony & Constantinos Maglaras, 2004. "Contact Centers with a Call-Back Option and Real-Time Delay Information," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 52(4), pages 527-545, August.
  16. Wall, A.D. & Worthington, D.J., 2007. "Time-dependent analysis of virtual waiting time behaviour in discrete time queues," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 178(2), pages 482-499, April.
  17. Schwarz, Justus Arne & Selinka, Gregor & Stolletz, Raik, 2016. "Performance analysis of time-dependent queueing systems: Survey and classification," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 170-189.
  18. Stolletz, Raik, 2008. "Approximation of the non-stationary M(t)/M(t)/c(t)-queue using stationary queueing models: The stationary backlog-carryover approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 190(2), pages 478-493, October.
  19. Barış Ata & Xiaoshan Peng, 2020. "An Optimal Callback Policy for General Arrival Processes: A Pathwise Analysis," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 68(2), pages 327-347, March.
  20. Niyirora, Jerome & Zhuang, Jun, 2017. "Fluid approximations and control of queues in emergency departments," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 261(3), pages 1110-1124.
  21. Ran Liu & Xiaolan Xie, 2018. "Physician Staffing for Emergency Departments with Time-Varying Demand," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 30(3), pages 588-607, August.
  22. Ingolfsson, Armann & Campello, Fernanda & Wu, Xudong & Cabral, Edgar, 2010. "Combining integer programming and the randomization method to schedule employees," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 202(1), pages 153-163, April.
  23. Ward Whitt, 1999. "Partitioning Customers into Service Groups," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 45(11), pages 1579-1592, November.
  24. Samantha L. Zimmerman & Alexander R. Rutherford & Alexa Waall & Monica Norena & Peter Dodek, 2023. "A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 26(2), pages 200-216, June.
  25. Mor Armony & Constantinos Maglaras, 2004. "On Customer Contact Centers with a Call-Back Option: Customer Decisions, Routing Rules, and System Design," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 52(2), pages 271-292, April.
  26. Guodong Pang & Ward Whitt, 2012. "The Impact of Dependent Service Times on Large-Scale Service Systems," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 14(2), pages 262-278, April.
  27. Andersen, Anders Reenberg & Nielsen, Bo Friis & Reinhardt, Line Blander & Stidsen, Thomas Riis, 2019. "Staff optimization for time-dependent acute patient flow," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 272(1), pages 94-105.
  28. Xi Chen & Dave Worthington, 2017. "Staffing of time-varying queues using a geometric discrete time modelling approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 252(1), pages 63-84, May.
  29. Karen Smilowitz & Maciek Nowak & Tingting Jiang, 2013. "Workforce Management in Periodic Delivery Operations," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 47(2), pages 214-230, May.
  30. Armann Ingolfsson & Elvira Akhmetshina & Susan Budge & Yongyue Li & Xudong Wu, 2007. "A Survey and Experimental Comparison of Service-Level-Approximation Methods for Nonstationary M(t)/M/s(t) Queueing Systems with Exhaustive Discipline," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 19(2), pages 201-214, May.
  31. Ward Whitt & Wei You, 2019. "Time-Varying Robust Queueing," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(6), pages 1766-1782, November.
  32. Achal Bassamboo & Ramandeep S. Randhawa & Assaf Zeevi, 2010. "Capacity Sizing Under Parameter Uncertainty: Safety Staffing Principles Revisited," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 56(10), pages 1668-1686, October.
  33. Ingolfsson, Armann & Amanul Haque, Md. & Umnikov, Alex, 2002. "Accounting for time-varying queueing effects in workforce scheduling," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 139(3), pages 585-597, June.
  34. Legros, Benjamin & Fransoo, Jan C., 2023. "Admission and pricing optimization of on-street parking with delivery bays," Other publications TiSEM 6d41ee5c-27dc-4d34-aff1-4, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
  35. Atul Bhandari & Alan Scheller-Wolf & Mor Harchol-Balter, 2008. "An Exact and Efficient Algorithm for the Constrained Dynamic Operator Staffing Problem for Call Centers," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 54(2), pages 339-353, February.
  36. Avramidis, Athanassios N. & Chan, Wyean & Gendreau, Michel & L'Ecuyer, Pierre & Pisacane, Ornella, 2010. "Optimizing daily agent scheduling in a multiskill call center," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 200(3), pages 822-832, February.
  37. Ekin, Tahir & Aktekin, Tevfik, 2021. "Decision making under uncertain and dependent system rates in service systems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 291(1), pages 335-348.
  38. J. G. Dai & Pengyi Shi, 2017. "A Two-Time-Scale Approach to Time-Varying Queues in Hospital Inpatient Flow Management," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 65(2), pages 514-536, April.
  39. Song-Hee Kim & Ward Whitt, 2013. "Statistical Analysis with Little's Law," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 61(4), pages 1030-1045, August.
  40. Mehmet Tolga Cezik & Pierre L'Ecuyer, 2008. "Staffing Multiskill Call Centers via Linear Programming and Simulation," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 54(2), pages 310-323, February.
  41. Abhishek, & Legros, Benjamin & Fransoo, Jan C., 2021. "Performance evaluation of stochastic systems with dedicated delivery bays and general on-street parking," Other publications TiSEM 09ed9572-d59c-4f28-a9c4-b, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
  42. Yang, Feng & Liu, Jingang, 2012. "Simulation-based transfer function modeling for transient analysis of general queueing systems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 223(1), pages 150-166.
  43. Defraeye, Mieke & Van Nieuwenhuyse, Inneke, 2016. "Staffing and scheduling under nonstationary demand for service: A literature review," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 4-25.
  44. Ward Whitt, 2013. "OM Forum —Offered Load Analysis for Staffing," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 15(2), pages 166-169, May.
  45. Opher Baron & Joseph Milner, 2009. "Staffing to Maximize Profit for Call Centers with Alternate Service-Level Agreements," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 57(3), pages 685-700, June.
  46. Liu, Yunan & Whitt, Ward, 2017. "Stabilizing performance in a service system with time-varying arrivals and customer feedback," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(2), pages 473-486.
  47. Legros, Benjamin & Fransoo, Jan C., 2024. "Admission and pricing optimization of on-street parking with delivery bays," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 312(1), pages 138-149.
  48. Heemskerk, M. & Mandjes, M. & Mathijsen, B., 2022. "Staffing for many-server systems facing non-standard arrival processes," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 296(3), pages 900-913.
  49. Yunan Liu & Ward Whitt, 2012. "Stabilizing Customer Abandonment in Many-Server Queues with Time-Varying Arrivals," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 60(6), pages 1551-1564, December.
  50. Noah Gans & Yong-Pin Zhou, 2003. "A Call-Routing Problem with Service-Level Constraints," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 51(2), pages 255-271, April.
  51. J. Michael Harrison & Assaf Zeevi, 2005. "A Method for Staffing Large Call Centers Based on Stochastic Fluid Models," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 7(1), pages 20-36, September.
  52. Galit B. Yom-Tov & Avishai Mandelbaum, 2014. "Erlang-R: A Time-Varying Queue with Reentrant Customers, in Support of Healthcare Staffing," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 16(2), pages 283-299, May.
  53. Ward Whitt & Jingtong Zhao, 2017. "Many‐server loss models with non‐poisson time‐varying arrivals," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(3), pages 177-202, April.
  54. Ernst, A. T. & Jiang, H. & Krishnamoorthy, M. & Sier, D., 2004. "Staff scheduling and rostering: A review of applications, methods and models," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 153(1), pages 3-27, February.
  55. Walid W. Nasr & Michael R. Taaffe, 2013. "Fitting the Ph t / M t / s / c Time-Dependent Departure Process for Use in Tandem Queueing Networks," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 25(4), pages 758-773, November.
  56. Yue Zhang & Martin L. Puterman & Matthew Nelson & Derek Atkins, 2012. "A Simulation Optimization Approach to Long-Term Care Capacity Planning," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 60(2), pages 249-261, April.
  57. Ward Whitt, 2004. "A Diffusion Approximation for the G/GI/n/m Queue," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 52(6), pages 922-941, December.
  58. William A. Massey & Jamol Pender, 2018. "Dynamic rate Erlang-A queues," Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 89(1), pages 127-164, June.
  59. Ward Whitt, 2016. "Heavy-traffic fluid limits for periodic infinite-server queues," Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 84(1), pages 111-143, October.
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