SKILL UPDATE BASED WORK ASSIGNMENT

• US 20140188536A1
• Filed: 01/02/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dasgupta, Gargi B., Desai, Nirmit V., Diao, Yixin, Heching, Aliza R.
• Application Number:
  US13/732,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20140188536A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task

Abstract

Skill update based work assignment in one aspect may comprise receiving a worker set identifying a list of workers, current skills associated with the worker set, required skills associated with a set of tickets; classifying the current skills and the required skills to find worker target skills; calculating for each of the workers in the worker set, a worker'"'"'s updated skill should the worker be assigned to and work on one or more of the set of tickets; and assigning one or more of the set of tickets to one or more of the workers in the worker set whose current skills enable resolving the set of tickets within a predetermined criterion, and based on whether one or more of the workers'"'"' updated skills meet the worker target skills.

Claims

1. A method for work assigning, comprising:

receiving a worker set identifying a list of workers, current skills associated with the worker set, required skills associated with a set of tickets, the required skills representing skills needed to resolve one or more tickets in the set of tickets;

classifying, by a processor, the current skills and the required skills to find worker target skills that can be accomplished within an acceptable length of training time;

calculating, automatically by the processor, for each of the workers in the worker set, a worker'"'"'s updated skill should the worker be assigned to and work on one or more of the set of tickets; and

assigning one or more of the set of tickets to one or more of the workers in the worker set whose current skills enable resolving the set of tickets within a predetermined criterion, and based on whether one or more of the workers'"'"' updated skills meet the worker target skills.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating the worker'"'"'s skill based on the assigned one or more tickets.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the assigning comprises assigning a ticket from the set of tickets that best produce the worker'"'"'s target skills.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the assigning further comprises computing a score for each ticket in the set of tickets based on how the current skills of a worker in the set of workers will be updated, given the predetermined criterion is satisfied, and assigning the ticket based on the computed scored.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the score is computed across multiple skill dimensions and the ticket is assigned to a worker who has maximum sum of the computed score across the multiple skill dimensions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the assigning comprises assigning a ticket in the set of tickets to a worker in the set of workers whose updated skill is closest to the worker target skill.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the assigning comprises computing a rank associated with each of the set of workers, the rank specifying a distance between the updated skill associated with said each of the set of workers and the worker target skill associated with said each of the set of workers, wherein the worker associated with the distance that is smallest is assigned the ticket.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the assigning comprises assigning a set of tickets to the set of workers, comprising:

pushing one or more of the set of tickets to one or more worker'"'"'s queues associated with one or more of the workers based on the updated skills associated with the one or more workers; and

for each worker, pulling a ticket from the respective worker'"'"'s queue that best upgrades the respective worker'"'"'s skill to meet that worker target skill associated with the respective worker.

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