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Evaluation of the Staggering Appointment Policy in a Two-Stage Service System

두 단계 서비스 시스템에서 교차예약정책의 평가

  • Received : 2011.04.19
  • Accepted : 2011.09.06
  • Published : 2011.09.30
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Abstract

The appointment system is widely used to facilitate customer access to service in many industries including healthcare and others. Because of its importance, much research has investigated how to build an effective appointment policy under various environments. However, most research has considered a single-server service system. The objective of this work is to evaluate several appointment policies in a two-stage service system in which multiple servers are available and build separate appointments at the second-stage. In such a system, we propose and evaluate the staggering appointment policy. Simulation experiments indicate that the proposed staggering appointment policy outperforms other traditional appointment policies in terms of customer waiting time, server idle time, and the number of customers who are later to scheduled appointments.

예약시스템은 고객들이 서비스에 효과적으로 접근하는 것을 용이하게 하는 방법으로 의료 등의 서비스 산업에서 많이 사용되고 있다. 예약시스템의 중요성 때문에 서비스 제공 환경 별로 효과적인 예약정책 수립에 대한 연구가 많이 진행되고 있지만 대부분의 연구는 단일 서버, 단일 단계로 구성된 서비스 시스템만을 고려하고 있다. 본 논문은 다수의 서버로 구성된 두 단계 서비스 시스템에서 다양한 예약정책을 평가하여 효과적인 예약정책을 수립하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 2단계의 서버가 개별적으로 고객 예약을 수립하는 환경을 고려하여 본 연구에서는 교차예약정책을 제시하였다. 시뮬레이션 연구를 통하여 기존의 전통적인 예약정책과 비교하여 고객대기시간, 서버의 유휴시간, 예약보다 지연 도착하는 고객의 수 등에서 교차예약정책이 우수한 결과를 제공하는 것을 제시하였다.

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