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Queueing Models for Analyzing Customer Contact Center Operations

PublisherOklahoma State University
Format54.7KB PDFDate added07 Jul 2006
Topics Customer Support Services
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Customer call centers, which represent a multi-billion dollar industry, are evolving into customer contact centers, in which customer contact happens through additional types of media - e-mail, fax, and the Web. The authors model the operations of contact centers, where the customer contact is via e-mail and present ongoing research on the development of queueing network models aimed at analyzing the processing of e-mails by a network of customer service agents. Problem resolution time becomes an important performance measure in analyzing such systems. Unlike response time, resolution time is not normally addressed in call center models. The analytical modeling work presented here is largely exploratory, and is expected to help identify modeling issues that need to be studied further.

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