报告题目: |
Optimal resource allocation in multi-site service systems with inter-site customer flows |
报告人: |
Xiuli Chao |
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Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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报告时间: |
2008-05-09 10:00 |
报告地点: |
FIT楼1-312 |
主办单位: |
计算机系 |
简介: |
We study the resource allocation problem in multisite service
systems with intersite customer flows. We aim at providing insights
to and guidelines for resource allocation in these service systems
when some service criterion, such as average waiting time, loss
rate, or blocking probability, is a major concern. We develop
analytical optimization models and from them we obtain the explicit
optimal allocation policy. Our results demonstrate that the optimal
resource allocation solution exhibits a structure of "one large and
many small." This is a joint work with L. Liu and S. Zheng.
Brief Bio:
Xiuli Chao is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His research interests
include queueing, scheduling, financial engineering, inventory
control, and supply chain management. He is the co-developer of
Lekin Scheduling System, and the co-author of two books, "Operations
Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services"
(McGraw-Hill, 1998), and "Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals, and
Product Form Solutions" (John Wiley & Sons, 1999). Xiuli Chao
received the 1998 Erlang Prize from the Applied Probability Society
of INFORMS, and the 2005 David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award
from Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). He is, or has been,
the associate editor/department editor for Operations Research,
Queueinng Systems (QUESTA), IIE Trasactions, Naval Research
Logistics, Operations Research Letters, Probability in the
Engineering and Informational Sciences, among others. |
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