This article proposes an algorithm for deploying manpower to a statistical process control (SPC) system that monitors a multistage manufacturing system. The algorithm minimizes the expected total cost by optimizing the amount of allocated manpower in the SPC system (referred to as an M-SPC system), as well as the sample sizes, sampling intervals and control limits of the control charts. It also...

The ability to forecast manpower requirements is crucial for an industry. On the demand side, companies rely on these forecasts to formulate their manpower planning strategies, while, on the supply side, they provide job seekers with a basis to assess the attractiveness of a given sector. Forecasts of supply and demand for manpower also make an important contribution to the governmental policy-...

A model for manpower management is presented based upon the study of a large technical department of a corporation. The model can be used in an optimization mode to determine recruiting plans, given manning needs, and in a simulation mode to project the results of changes in salary structure or advancement policies. The model explicitly recognizes different levels of performance at each job lev...

The effective information processing (e.g. search, organization) of the heterogeneous information spaces requires metadata layer above the resources. However, the acquisition of resource metadata and domain models are challenging tasks. Here, the crowdsourcing has emerged as an alternative to expert-based and automated semantics acquisition approaches. One of its branches are the games with a p...