Decision support system and method for distributed decision making for optimal human resource deployment

US8818832B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Munish Goyal · Yorktown Heights, US
• Nandakishore Kambhatla · Elmsford, US
• Pavithra Krishnan · Bengaluru, IN
• Shivaram Kulkarni · Bengaluru, IN
• Rohit M. Lotlikar · Bengaluru, IN
• Debapriyo Majumdar · Bengaluru, IN
• Gyana Ranjan Parija · Poughkeepsie, US
• Sambuddha Roy · Bengaluru, IN
• Soujanya Soni · New Delhi, IN
• Simon Thomas · Heathfield, GB
• Milind V. Vaidya · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 2009
• Grant date: Aug 26, 2014
• Expiry date: Jan 31, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/188
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A decision support tool which takes a high-level view of supply and demand in the realm of labor resources and produces globally-optimal recommendations for assignment of practitioners to open seats. These assignments preferably optimize a utility function composed of different business metrics and can be customizable for different organizations and priorities.