Distributed task scheduling and human resource distribution in industrial service solution production: a simulation application
TL;DR: A simulation model for scheduling service task operations and distributing related human resources in dispersed work centres provides means for setting up balanced work schedules that can greatly lower temporal overheads of appointment and release operations if workers are selected in accordance with compatible time availability and task qualifications.
Abstract: This paper provides a simulation model for scheduling service task operations and distributing related human resources in dispersed work centres. The managerial concern for the minimisation of temporal overhead costs of task operations in the face of fluctuating, short-term service demands is examined under restrictions imposed by resource availability, work hour flexibility and task-backlog fulfilment. Scheduling strategies are developed directly from the constrained reduction of temporal overheads of appointment and release operations in distributed, non-interlinked work centres. To ensure the model’s structural validity, simulated task backlogs are adjusted to the actual backlog-reducing procedures in real applications. The model provides means for setting up balanced work schedules that can greatly lower temporal overheads of appointment and release operations if workers are selected in accordance with compatible time availability and task qualifications. Direct comparisons of worker productivities in...
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01 Jan 1981
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.
Abstract: This paper summarizes the current state of the art and recent trends in software engineering economics. It provides an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management. It surveys the field of software cost estimation, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether manufacturing multinational enterprises can obtain better servitization outcomes by partnering with knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms and or by internationalizing their service function and analyzed the centralization of management decisions of human resources as an organizational mechanism to overcome coordination failure between product and service units.
Abstract: Research is needed on effective servitization by multinational enterprises This study examines whether Manufacturing Multinational Enterprises (MMNEs) can obtain better servitization outcomes by partnering with Knowledge Intensive Business Service (KIBS) firms and or by internationalizing their service function In addition, the paper analyses the centralization of management decisions of human resources as an organizational mechanism to overcome coordination failure between product and service units Our primary research data contain survey responses from 285 MMNEs collected in cooperation with an industry partner Results show that cross-border strategic alliances and expertise decision centralization are critical to enhance product-service innovation
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TL;DR: In this article, a 0-1 programming model is developed and the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) is adopted to deal with the NP-hard problem.
Abstract: The proper balancing of geographically distributed task schedules and the associated workforce distributions are critical determinants of productivity in any people-centric production environment. The paper has investigated the cross-trained workers scheduling problem considering the qualified personal allocation and temporally cooperation of engineers simultaneously. A 0–1 programming model is developed and the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) is adopted to deal with the NP-hard problem. In order to enforce the NSGA-II, significant improvements are made to function the approach in a more efficient way. It is observed that the improved NSGA-II outperforms the original NSGA-II in the experimental test. The promising outcomes of the formulation in the experiment make its implementation easily customisable and transferable for solving other intricate problems in the context of skilled workforce scheduling. Furthermore, the modified NSGA II can be used as an efficient and effective tool fo...
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TL;DR: In this article, the problem of integrated assembly job shop (AJS) scheduling and self-reconfiguration in knowledgeable manufacturing is studied with the objective of minimizing the weighted sum of completion cost of products, the earliness penalty of operations and the training cost of workers.
Abstract: The problems of integrated assembly job shop (AJS) scheduling and self-reconfiguration in knowledgeable manufacturing are studied with the objective of minimising the weighted sum of completion cost of products, the earliness penalty of operations and the training cost of workers. In AJS, each workstation consists of a certain number of teams of workers. A product is assumed to have a tree structure consisting of components and subassemblies. The assembly of components, subassemblies and final products are optimised with the capacity of workstations simultaneously. A heuristic algorithm is developed to solve the problem. Dominance relations of operations are derived and applied in the development of the heuristic. A backward insertion search strategy is designed to locally optimise the operation sequence. Once the optimal schedule is acquired, the teams are reconfigured by transferring them from workstations of lower utilisation to those of higher utilisation. Effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is te...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the college students venture project human resource scheduling mechanism and made it more effective applied to college students entrepreneurship practice activities and improve college students' entrepreneurial project success rate.
Abstract: In college students' entrepreneurial project,we face a variety of resource allocation,effectively utilize these resources can better improve the efficiency of the operation of the college students' entrepreneurial projects. In this paper, based on the current problems w,we studied the college students venture project human resource scheduling mechanism.Through the system design and software development suggestions, we can make it more effective applied to college students entrepreneurship practice activities and improve college students' entrepreneurial project success rate.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.
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TL;DR: In this article, a principal-agent model that can explain why employment is sometimes superior to independent contracting even when there are no productive advantages to specific physical or human capital and no financial market imperfections to limit the agent's borrowings is presented.
Abstract: Introduction In the standard economic treatment of the principal–agent problem, compensation systems serve the dual function of allocating risks and rewarding productive work. A tension between these two functions arises when the agent is risk averse, for providing the agent with effective work incentives often forces him to bear unwanted risk. Existing formal models that have analyzed this tension, however, have produced only limited results. It remains a puzzle for this theory that employment contracts so often specify fixed wages and more generally that incentives within firms appear to be so muted, especially compared to those of the market. Also, the models have remained too intractable to effectively address broader organizational issues such as asset ownership, job design, and allocation of authority. In this article, we will analyze a principal–agent model that (i) can account for paying fixed wages even when good, objective output measures are available and agents are highly responsive to incentive pay; (ii) can make recommendations and predictions about ownership patterns even when contracts can take full account of all observable variables and court enforcement is perfect; (iii) can explain why employment is sometimes superior to independent contracting even when there are no productive advantages to specific physical or human capital and no financial market imperfections to limit the agent's borrowings; (iv) can explain bureaucratic constraints; and (v) can shed light on how tasks get allocated to different jobs.
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