Arena Material: chapter 5 - AS Nida

Arena Material: chapter 5 - AS Nida Arena Material: chapter 5 - AS Nida

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odel 5-2: Enhanced Call Center hanges Incoming calls’ arrival rate varies over day Probabilistic model – Nonstationary Poisson process – More in Section 12.3 Instead of a constant rate (= 1 / mean interarrival time), specify a rate function ution – it’s sy to nerate this orrectly ... e text for tails – Arena supports piecewise-constant rate function – “step” functions Easy to specify, strong theoretical support – Rate-function specification: In Arena, rates MUST be in arrivals per HOUR, regardless of base time units or time intervals

odel 5-2: Enhanced Call Center hanges (cont’d.) Sales-staff size varies over day Data in text, Schedule data module, Sales Schedule Tech-support staff are partially cross-trained, work complicated schedule: Will use Arena Sets concept to implement this cross training

odel 5-2: Enhanced Call Center<br />

hanges<br />

Incoming calls’ arrival rate varies over day<br />

Probabilistic model – Nonstationary Poisson process<br />

– More in Section 12.3<br />

Instead of a constant rate (= 1 / mean interarrival time),<br />

specify a rate function<br />

ution – it’s<br />

sy to<br />

nerate this<br />

orrectly ...<br />

e text for<br />

tails<br />

– <strong>Arena</strong> supports piecewise-constant rate function – “step” functions<br />

Easy to specify, strong theoretical support<br />

– Rate-function specification:<br />

In <strong>Arena</strong>, rates MUST<br />

be in arrivals per HOUR,<br />

regardless of base time<br />

units or time intervals

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