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Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. 7th International Conference, InterSol 2024, Dakar, Senegal, July 3–4, 2024, Proceedings

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The Impact of Agents Heterogeneous in Call Center Performance Measures

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-031-86493-3_18,
        author={Mamadou Thiongane and Mohamed M. Ould Deye and Modou Gueye and Ndiouma Bame},
        title={The Impact of Agents Heterogeneous in Call Center Performance Measures},
        proceedings={Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. 7th International Conference, InterSol 2024, Dakar, Senegal, July 3--4, 2024, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={INTERSOL},
        year={2025},
        month={4},
        keywords={Agents Heterogeneous Call Center Real Data},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-031-86493-3_18}
    }
    
  • Mamadou Thiongane
    Mohamed M. Ould Deye
    Modou Gueye
    Ndiouma Bame
    Year: 2025
    The Impact of Agents Heterogeneous in Call Center Performance Measures
    INTERSOL
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-86493-3_18
Mamadou Thiongane1,*, Mohamed M. Ould Deye1, Modou Gueye1, Ndiouma Bame1
  • 1: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
*Contact email: mamadou.thiongane@ucad.edu.sn

Abstract

Modern call centers are highly complex queuing systems, in which there are several possible call types, and many agents groups. Due to this complexity, simulators are now preferred for their management than standard Erlang queuing models. Several studies have shown through data analysis that agents often have quite different speeds for processing a call type. However, this agent heterogeneity is often neglected, which is why most simulators have not been designed to use heterogeneous agents to process a service. In this work, we use simulation to study the impact of agent heterogeneity on the performance of call centers. We developed and integrated a module into the call center simulator,ContactCenter, which allows the use of heterogeneous agents to process a service. We have analyzed data collected from a real call center and have shown that agents have different processing speeds for handling a call type. We have modeled the distribution of arrivals, service times and patience times that will enable us to simulate this call center. Simulation result show that call center performance on a given day depends largely on the agents chosen to answer the calls.

Keywords
Agents Heterogeneous Call Center Real Data
Published
2025-04-21
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86493-3_18
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