An Auction-Based System for Workforce Resource Allocation

  • Nadim Haque
  • Botond Virginas
  • Mathias Kern
  • Gilbert Owusu
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5027)

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.

Keywords

agent-based system auction resource allocation 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Nadim Haque
    • 1
  • Botond Virginas
    • 1
  • Mathias Kern
    • 1
  • Gilbert Owusu
    • 1
  1. 1.BT Group Chief Technology OfficeIpswichUK

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