@misc{10498/32523,
year = {2024},
month = {6},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10498/32523},
abstract = {In this paper we analyze the well-known “Anonymous bank” call center dataset from a queueing science viewpoint. For this purpose, fitted distributions for both the inter-arrival and service times as well as for customers patiences are integrated in a simulator to infer quantities of interest related to call centers managerial de- cisions as waiting times, abandonment rates and queue lengths. In particular, it is shown how a type of Markov renewal process, the Markovian arrival process (MAP), is able to capture some of the characterizing properties of arrivals in a modern call center as overdispersion and positive correlation between arrival counts. The work provides a new inference approach for the MAP based on the count process de- scriptors and presents new properties concerning the dependence structure of the cumulated number of arrivals in a MAP.},
keywords = {Call center},
keywords = {Markovian arrival process},
keywords = {Lognormal distribution},
keywords = {Overdis- persion},
keywords = {Impatient customers},
keywords = {Queueing Science},
title = {Call center data modeling: a queueing science approach based on Markovian arrival processes},
author = {González, Marcos and Lillo, Rosa Elvira and Ramírez Cobo, Josefa},
}