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M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
卷 10, 期 3, 页码 391-410出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1070.0179
关键词
dimension reduction; dynamic forecast updating; principal component analysis; penalized least squares; singular value decomposition; vector time series
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 series. We propose first to reduce the dimensionality by singular value decomposition of the matrix of historical intraday profiles and then to apply time series and regression techniques. Our approach takes into account both interday ( or day-to-day) dynamics and intraday ( or within-day) patterns of call arrivals. Distributional forecasts are also developed. The proposed methods are data driven, appear to be robust against model assumptions in our simulation studies, and are shown to be very competitive in out-of-sample forecast comparisons using two real data sets. Our methods are computationally fast; it is therefore feasible to use them for real-time dynamic forecasting.
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