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Prepare a ".docx" or ".doe" (ARENA project) file (3) which contains your simulation model and a ".pdf" file (4) which contains your answers for Question 2. Finally, prepare a ".pdf", or ".zip" file containing these five files. The submission deadline is January 7th,2023,23:59. Only submissions made through the corresponding submission link provided in LMS page will be graded.
Consider a simple call center that works for seven days a week and 24 hours a day. The call center works in 2 shifts. The first shift starts at 08:00 and ends in 20:00, employing 3 identical call center agents. The second shift starts at 20:00 and ends in 08:00, employing 2 identical call center agents. In the end of the first shift, if the third agent is busy, s/he does not end his/her shift until that task is complete. However, s/he does not compensate this extra work, and tomorrow, s? he starts his/her shift at the regular time at 08:00.
Through out the day, the inter-arrival times of the calls arriving to the center (and the arrival of the first caller) follow exponential distribution with an average of 5 minutes. The callrs are calling according to a Poisson process with a rate =12 calls per hour. When a caller calls, s? he waits until an agent becomes idle, then the service starts. A caller can be any of the three types of callers:
Type I Caller: 20% of the callers are Type I callers. The service duration of type I callers is normally distributed with an average of 12 minutes and standard deviation of 1.75 minutes.
Type II Caller: 42% of the callers are Type H callers. The service duration in minutes of type II callers is Erlang distributed with shape parameter k=4 and scale parameter (exponential mean)2.5.
Type III Caller: 38% of the callers are Type III callers. The service duration of type III callers is deterministic with fixed period of 12.25 minutes.
Callers wait in a single queue until an agent becomes idle. This queue adapts a FIFO discipline between type I and type II callers, and a FIFO discipline between type III callers. However, type III callers are given a priority and they always get in front of type I and type II callers in the queue.
(a)(12p) Develop a simulation model ("*.doe" file) in ARENA that will be run for 100 replications, where each replication is 20 days long with a warm-up period of 1 day. In your ARENA model, as animation:
a plot diagram must show the number of callers in the system,
a variable must show the number of busy agents at any moment,
a clock must show the time of the day (in hours, minutes, and seconds),
Type I, II, and III clients should respectively be animated as a green, blue, and red balls before they enter the service queue.
(b)(18p) Prepare a ".pdf" file that provides answers to the following questions.
What fraction of callers spends more than 40 minutes in the system? Provide an estimate.
What is the average time spent in the queue by a client? Provide an estimate and a 95% confidence interval.
What is the instantaneous utilization of the agents? Provide an estimate and a 95% confidence interval.
What is the average number of clients in the system? Provide an estimate and a 95% confidence interval.
I know that it requires Arena but it's enough for me just to draw the simulation Thanks:)
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