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Asymptotic approximations for stationary distributions of many-server queues with abandonment

, 2012
A many-server queueing system is considered in which customers arrive according to a renewal process and have service and patience times that are drawn from two independent sequences of independent, identically distributed random variables.
Kang, Weining, Ramanan, Kavita
core   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Day-Ahead Real-Time Optimal Scheduling Approach for Customer Directrix Load-Based Demand Response of Heavy-Duty Truck Battery Swapping Stations [PDF]

Dianli jianshe
[Objective] A day-ahead， real-time optimal scheduling approach for customer directrix load （CDL）-based demand response is proposed to address the problem of the strong uncertainty of the battery swapping demand and inability to define the baseline load ...
LIU Zhanpeng, FAN Shuai, CAI Siye, SUN Ying, HUANG Renke, HE Guangyu
doaj   +1 more source

Queuing Time Decision Model with the Consideration on Call Center Customer Abandonment Behavior

Journal of Networks, 2014
To improve customer satisfaction through prompting waiting time is a key way for a call center. The practice shows that the length of prompted waiting time has an important effect on customer satisfaction and the utility of the call center. Based on queuing theory we develop a maximum system utility optimization model with consideration of customer ...
Jun Gong, Manru Li
openaire   +1 more source

K competing queues with customer abandonment: optimality of a generalised $$c \mu $$-rule by the Smoothed Rate Truncation method [PDF]

Annals of Operations Research, 2019
AbstractWe consider a K-competing queues system with the additional feature of customer abandonment. Without abandonment, it is optimal to allocate the server to a queue according to the $$c \mu $$ c μ -rule.
S. Bhulai, H. Blok, F. M. Spieksma
openaire   +3 more sources

An Analysis of Consumer Purchase Behavior Following Cart Addition in E-Commerce Utilizing Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
To optimize personalized offers and reduce cart abandonment, it is essential to understand customer behavior in e-commerce after products are added to the cart.
Ramazan Esmeli, Aytac Gokce
doaj   +1 more source

Why California retailers stop selling tobacco products, and what their customers and employees think about it when they do: case studies

BMC Public Health, 2011
Background In California, some 40, 000 retailers sell tobacco products. Tobacco's ubiquitousness in retail settings normalizes use and cues smoking urges among former smokers and those attempting cessation.
McDaniel Patricia A, Malone Ruth E
doaj   +1 more source

Hepatotoxicity of Nonesterified Fatty Acids to Dairy Cows: Pathophysiological Mechanisms and Prospective Solutions

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Unregulated inflammation increases non‐esterified fatty acids (NEFAs), and triggers multi‐pathway hepatocyte damage including oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and metabolic disorders in dairy cows. ABSTRACT Circulating concentrations of nonesterified fatty acids (NEFAs) are elevated due to lipid mobilization from adipose tissue in ...
Siqing Mao, Yuan Tian, Dan Li, Lei Tian, Hang Yu, Ziling Liu, Xin Gao, Yanqiong Wen, Fachun Wan, Zuo Wang, Weijun Shen, Xinwei Li, Lei Liu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sailing From Penalties to Accountability: Business Strategies and Governance for Firms to Innovate After Environmental Misconduct

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms' continuous pursuit of making a profit in the competitive market may ignore the actions related to environmental responsibilities. This set of actions for financial gains constitutes environmental misconduct, which not only harms ecosystems and communities but also brings reputational damage. Negative press and social media amplification
Ashutosh Singh, Salwa Saleh Almasabi, Ajay Kumar Patel, Priyanka Malik   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The protection of customer personal data as an element of entrepreneurs’ ethical conduct

Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2018
The right to the protection of personal data, which is part of the right to privacy, is a fundamental human right. Thus, its guarantees were included in the high-level regulations of the European Union as well as the legal norms of the EU Member States ...
Ewa Kulesza
doaj   +1 more source