Abstract: Techniques for assigning agents to callers that have contacted a contact center by using a communication management system. The techniques include initiating a communication session between a caller and the communication management system, obtaining caller data by obtaining data from the caller in the communication session and/or obtaining data about the caller's historical behavior, identifying an intent of the caller by using the caller data and a trained machine learning model configured to predict intent of callers, identifying, from a plurality of agents, an agent to assign to the caller in the communication session by using the identified intent and an agent performance model configured to rank at least some of the plurality of agents based on a measure of their performance in communication sessions with callers having a same intent as the identified intent, and assigning the identified agent to the caller.