CALL CENTRE WORKSHOP
July 23-25, 2004
Lecture Room: 1360

Friday, July 23
(joint activity with 2004 Stochastic Networks Conference)
08:30
Registration for Call Centre Workshop (Room 5345)

TALKS
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09:00 - 10:00
J. M. Harrison
A Method for Staffing Large Call Centers Based on Stochastic Fluid Models
10:00 - 10:45

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

10:45 - 11:45
A. Zeevi
Design and Control of a Large Call Center: Asymptotic
Analysis Using Two-scale Fluid Limits
14:15 - 15:15
A. Mandelbaum
QED Queues
15:15 - 16:00

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

16:00 - 17:00
M. Armony
Staffing and Routing in Large-Scale Service Systems


Saturday, July 24
09:00 - 10:00
Chantal Gagné (Speaker from Bell Canada)
Challenges in Managing BCH Call Centers
10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

10:30 - 11:30
N.F. Gans
Tutorial on Telephone Call Centers
11:30 - 12:30
H. Shen
Statistical Analysis of a Telephone Call Center: A Queueing-Science Perspective
14:00 - 15:00
W.A. Massey
Queueing Networks with Time Varying Rates for Modeling Call Centers
15:00 - 16:00
W. Whitt
Approximations for Multi-Server Queues with Abandonments
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

16:30 - 17:30
S. Helber
Profit-maximizing multi-period agent allocation in different types of inbound call centers
17:30

Wine and Cheese Reception


Sunday, July 25 (preliminary schedule)
08:30 - 09:30
R. Atar
Queueing systems with many servers: Control theory and heavy traffic asymptotics
09:30 - 10:30
G. Koole
Workforce planning and routing in multi-skill call centers
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

11:00 - 12:00
O.Z. Aksin
Revenue Management through Dynamic Cross-Selling in Call Center
12:00 - 12:30
K. Henken
Fluid and Diffusion Models of an M-designed Call
Center with Retrials
13:30 - 14:30
P. L'Ecuyer
Staffing and Scheduling in Call Centers
14:30 - 15:30
Y.-P. Zhou
Managing learning and turnover in employee staffing