RESOURCE ALLOCATION

专利名称：RESOURCE ALLOCATION发明人：LESAINT, David,VOUDOURIS,

Christos,AZARMI, Nader,LAITHWAITE,Robert Noel William,O'DONOGHUE, JohnJoseph,NOBLE, Andrew Paul,WALKER,Paul,ALLETSON, Ian Stuart

申请号：EP97912338.7申请日：19971112公开号：EP0938714B1公开日：20010117

摘要：A plurality of resources, typically service operatives, are allocated to a pluralityof tasks by a method in which initial information relating to the tasks to be allocated andthe resources available to perform the tasks is provided to first generate an initial seriesof schedules allocating resources to the tasks, and then modifying the individualschedule of at least one resource in response to updated information, whereby changesto individual schedules may be made in response to such updated information

independently of the schedule generation means. The initial series of schedules may begenerated in a two-stage process in which a rule-based system (30) allocates tasksselected as being difficult to allocate (e.g. because they are linked to other tasks), andthen a stochastic (non-systematic) search system (31) compiles the rest of the schedule.Periodically, the stochastic system may be interrupted to allow a further rule-basedsystem (39) to analyse the schedules created thus far, and fix the best ones in theschedule, so that the stochastic system (31) can then concentrate on improving the

remaining schedules. In order to allow the system to handle rapid changes in therequirements for tasks and the resources, on a scale faster than the time required togenerate the schedules, a schedule modification system (40) is arranged to makechanges in the short term in between schedule updates delivered by the schedulegeneration system (30, 31).

申请人：BRITISH TELECOMM

地址：GB

国籍：GB

代理机构：Lidbetter, Timothy Guy Edwin

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