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An Auction-Based System for Workforce Resource Allocation
Abstract
In this paper, we look at the problem of workforce redeployments where we consider the deployment of field engineers within a company organisation. Traditional methods for solving such problems have focused primarily on using centralised decision makers and optimisation algorithms which compute results in a solely centralised manner. Now, auctions have shown to have been used successfully for allocating resources in various applications and systems. Thus, in this paper, we propose a system that makes use of auctions as a mechanism for allocating the resources (field engineers) between different geographical parts of an organisation.
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