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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
T. K. Balachandran, Raleigh, NC (US);
Pu Huang, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Kaan K. Katircioglu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Ta-Hsin Li, Danbury, CT (US);
Ying Li, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
Axel Martens, White Plains, NY (US);
Rakesh Mohan, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Krishna C. Ratakonda, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Richard B. Segal, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Lisa A. Smith, Denver, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Assignment scheduling for service projects, in one aspect, may comprise preparing input parameter data for servicing a client service request; generating a schedule for servicing the client service request by executing an optimization algorithm with the input parameter data; determining whether the schedule is acceptable by the client; and repeating automatically the preparing, the generating, the transmitting and the determining until it is determined that the schedule is acceptable by the client, wherein each iteration automatically prepares different input parameter data for inputting to the optimization algorithm and generates a different schedule based on the different input parameter data.