The impact of customer flexibility in service systems

The impact of customer flexibility in service systems

Probability Seminar
Feb 9, 2011, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Rhonda Righter, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley
In many service, production, and traffic systems there are multiple types of customers requiring different types of "servers," i.e., different services, products, or routes. Providing flexible servers that can serve multiple types of customers improves performance, but the cost of providing this flexibility, e.g. for cross-training, may be very high. On the other hand, often some of the customers...