Shen, Haipeng; Huang, Jianhua Z. - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 10 (2008) 3, pp. 391-410
Accurate forecasting of call arrivals is critical for staffing and scheduling of a telephone call center. We develop methods for interday and dynamic intraday forecasting of incoming call volumes. Our approach is to treat the intraday call volume profiles as a high-dimensional vector time...