Workforce and workload 1998–2006

Depth-Workload Tradeoffs for Workforce Organization

We introduce and consider the problem of effectively organizing a population of workers of varying abilities. We assume that arriving tasks for the workforce are homogeneous, and that each is characterized by an unknown and onedimensional difficulty value x ∈ [0, 1]. Each worker i is characterized by their ability wi ∈ [0, 1], and can solve the task if and only if x ≤ wi. If a worker is unable ...

Mental Workload and ARL Workload Modeling Tools

The author of this report provides an overview of mental workload theory and mental workload measurement. She also describes the development, application, and validation of the mental workload modeling tools developed by the Human Research and Engineering Directorate of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). These ARL tools, VACP (visual, auditory, cognitive, psychomotor) option in the improv...

ACU workforce column: expanding and supporting the health care workforce.

Workload-Aware Web Crawling and Server Workload Detection

With the development of search engines, more and more web crawlers are used to gather web pages. The rising crawling traffic has brought the concern that crawlers may impact web sites. On the other hand, more efficient crawling strategy is required for the coverage and freshness of search engine index. In this paper, crawlers of several major search engines are analyzed using one six-months acc...

Scalable Workload Adaptation for Mixed Workload

Workload adaptation is a performance management process in which an autonomic database management system (DBMS) efficiently makes use of its resources by filtering or controlling the workload presented to it in order to meet its Service Level Objectives (SLOs). The overhead incurred by filtering or controlling the workload is an important factor affecting the effectiveness of workload adaptatio...