Title of article :
APPROXIMATE DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES FOR THE CONTROL OF TIME-VARYING QUEUING SYSTEMS APPLIED TO CALL CENTERS WITH ABANDONMENTS AND RETRIALS
Author/Authors :
DENNIS ROUBOS، نويسنده , , SANDJAI BHULAI، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
Pages :
19
From page :
27
To page :
45
Abstract :
In this article we develop techniques for applying Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) to the control of time-varying queuing systems. First, we show that the classical state space representation in queuing systems leads to approximations that can be significantly improved by increasing the dimensionality of the state space by state disaggregation. Second, we deal with time-varying parameters by adding them to the state space with an ADP parameterization.We demonstrate these techniques for the optimal admission control in a retrial queue with abandonments and time-varying parameters. The numerical experiments show that our techniques have near to optimal performance.
Journal title :
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Serial Year :
2010
Journal title :
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Record number :
665171
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