Employee positioning and workload allocation

Nps - Cs - 16 - 003 Naval Postgraduate School Monterey , California an Application Aware Approach to Scalable Online Placement of Data Center Workloads

Data center operators strive for maximum resource utilization while satisfying tenant service level agreements; however, they face major challenges as application workload types are diverse and tenants add, remove, and update their workloads sporadically to meet changing user demands. Currently, operators allocate workload VMs primarily in an application agnostic fashion, focusing on minimizing...

Cycle Time Reduction and Runtime Rebalancing by Reallocating Dependent Tasks

Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) is a complex information system that provides designing, administrating, and improving the business processes. Task allocation to human resources is one of the most important issues which should be managed more efficiently in BPMS. Task allocation algorithms are defined in order to meet the various policies of organizations. The most important of these...

When Does a Newcomer Contribute to a Better Performance? A Multi-Agent Study on Self-Organising Processes of Task Allocation

This paper describes how a work group and a newcomer mutually adapt. We study two types of simulated groups that need an extra worker, one group because a former employee had left the group and one group because of its workload. For both groups, we test three conditions, newcomers being specialists, newcomers being generalists, and a control condition with no newcomer. We hypothesise that the g...

Cycle Time Optimization of Processes Using an Entropy-Based Learning for Task Allocation

Cycle time optimization could be one of the great challenges in business process management. Although there is much research on this subject, task similarities have been paid little attention. In this paper, a new approach is proposed to optimize cycle time by minimizing entropy of work lists in resource allocation while keeping workloads balanced. The idea of the entropy of work lists comes fr...

Employee Morale during Downsizing