DocumentCode
2044053
Title
Hystertic optimal policy of servers in front room and back room with switching time and switching cost
Author
Arivudainambi, D. ; Poongothai, V.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Math., Anna Univ. Chennai, Chennai, India
Volume
5
fYear
2011
fDate
8-10 April 2011
Firstpage
221
Lastpage
225
Abstract
Many retail service are concerned with queueing theory problems, particularly ones which involve optimization. When a worker is being switched from one room to another, he has to move. In some cases this distance is very small, so it can be neglected. In the front room, workers serve customers who may be delayed in a queue. When the back room is interruptible, allowing a worker in the back room to switch to front room work with little delay or lost productivity. To optimize the operations of service facilities, we consider the amount of time that the workers are losing during the switch between the different types of work. After the completion of front room service if the customer is dissatisfied with its service for certain reason or if it received unsuccessful service, the customer may immediately join the second optional service and may leave the queue. The model is derived for switching from the front room to the back room, back room to the front room and loss of productivity due to switches between the rooms as switching cost. Our aim is to minimize customer waiting time with respect to switching servers from the front room to the back room.
Keywords
operations research; optimisation; queueing theory; hystertic optimal policy; queueing theory; server; switching cost; switching time; Computational modeling; Equations; Mathematical model; Productivity; Queueing analysis; Servers; Switches; back room; front room; switching cost; switching time;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT), 2011 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location
Kanyakumari
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8678-6
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-8679-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICECTECH.2011.5941990
Filename
5941990
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