SCHEDULING CHART CREATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME

• US 20090043635A1
• Filed: 07/30/2008
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Winworks Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Winworks Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: MORI, Yosuke
• Application Number:
  US12/182,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20090043635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment

Abstract

A scheduling chart creation system which reasonably controls a plurality of constraint conditions and creates a scheduling chart that corresponds to various working patterns and terms of employments. The scheduling chart creation system comprises a hierarchy control section and an application selection section. The hierarchy control section controls various rule information which is the information on terms of employment of employees and forms a constraint conditions at the time of creating a scheduling chart. The application selection section selects the rule information which is applied to the creation of the scheduling chart from the rule information. The hierarchy control section has an organization-data hierarchy control section which hierarchically controls the information of organization to which an employee belong as the rule information, and a time-data hierarchy control section to hierarchically controls a working date and a working pattern of the employee.

Claims

1. A scheduling chart creation system for automatically creating a date and time scheduling chart for an employee of a company, which comprises:

hierarchical control means for controlling various rule information in the form of a hierarchical structure, the rule information being obtained from information on employment conditions of the employee and forming a constraint condition used at the time of creating the scheduling chart; and

an application selection means for selecting the rule information which is applied to the creating of the scheduling chart from the various rule information which is hierarchically controlled by the hierarchical control means.

2. A scheduling chart creation system according to claim 1, wherein the hierarchical control means comprises an organization-data hierarchical control means in which organization-related information of a department etc. to which the employee belongs is held as the rule information and the organization-related information is hierarchically controlled.

3. A scheduling chart creation system according to claim 1, wherein the hierarchical control means comprises a working-time data hierarchical control means in which working pattern-related information including such as a working day, with or without shift, non-working day etc. of the employee is stored as the rule information and the working pattern-related information is hierarchically controlled.

4. A scheduling chart creation system according to claim 1, wherein the scheduling chart creation system has an integer programming solver which creates the scheduling chart through an integer programming using an objective function and a prescribed constraint condition, the application selection means selects the rule information having both the objective function capable to be applied to the integer programming solver and the prescribed constraint condition capable to be applied to the integer programming solver, and the integer programming solver creates the scheduling chart using the rule information selected by the application selection means.

5. A scheduling chart creation system according to claim 4, wherein the scheduling chart creation system has a rule-relaxation means, when the integer programming solver does not create the scheduling chart using the rule information selected by the application selection means, the rule-relaxation means being designed to relax the rule information so that scheduling chart can be created in the integer programming solver.

6. A program for making a computer function as the scheduling chart creation system according to claim 1.