Staffing Many-Server Queues with Impatient Customers: Constraint Satisfaction in Call Centers

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Operational Research

• Publication date

  2009-09-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/opre.1080.0651
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