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Methods and apparatus for work management and routing

  • US 8,335,704 B2
  • Filed: 01/28/2005
  • Issued: 12/18/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented method of making one or more resource assignments by assigning a work item to one or more resources from a set of plural resources, the method including the steps ofevaluating by a computer a fitness of one or more skills any of required or desired by the work item with one or more skills provided by each of the plural resources, where the evaluation is a function of(a) a similarity between the one or more skills any of required or desired by the work item and the one or more skills provided by each resource, and(b) a stress factor, where the stress factor is a measure reflecting a completion status of the work item with respect to at least one deadline associated therewith, and/or of a level of stress on any of(i) one or more work items,(ii) one or more resources, andassigning by a computer the work item to a resource selected from a pool of resources each having at least a selected fitness, wherein as a result of said evaluation of said function, the size of the pool of resources having at least the selected fitness changes as the stress factor varies such that the size changes from any of:

  • a smaller pool having resources with both the required and desired skills to a larger pool with at least required skills, ora larger pool with at least required skills to a smaller pool having both the required and desired skills.

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