Abstract The paper is motivated by real problems concerning tasks assignment to workers in medium-sized upholstered furniture plants managed using the Demand-Driven Manufacturing. Although methodology was developed for it can be applied other types of production plants. We involve competence coefficients, which describe level worker’s skills or capabilities perform a specific task. coefficients...

This paper explores the creation of a Decision Support System (DSS) for the classification and assignment of support tickets within an Information Technology Service (ITS) organization. With a reliance on lowerskilled, outsourced, or temporary workers, many organizations service desks experience issues with processing of incoming support tickets. Beyond this, these workers require extensive tra...

This paper incorporates assignment frictions and sector-specific training into the Roy model of occupational choice. Assignment frictions represent the extent of the market whereas differences in sector-specific training reflect worker specialization. This framework thus captures Adam Smith’s idea that the extent of the market determines the division of labor. The paper demonstrates the way in ...

In recent years the rising popularity of outsourcing work to crowds has led to increasing importance to find an effective assignment of suitable workers with tasks. Even though attempts have been made in related areas such as expertise identification most crowdsocuring jobs today are assigned without any predefined policy. Whilst some have investigated assigning jobs based on availability or ex...

Interruption is occurred by partial participation of workflows with adding new activity to a worker. A concerned worker to the interrupted workflow must restructure task assignment to improve consumed operating time by interruption. An opportunity of decision making is occurred to the workers to select appropriate tasks. However, preassignment of tasks to workers includes an expectation of supe...

A new platform, termed spatial crowdsourcing (SC), is emerging that enables a requester to commission workers to physically travel to some specified locations to perform a set of spatial tasks (i.e., tasks related to a geographical location and time). For spatial crowdsourcing to scale to millions of workers and tasks, it should be able to efficiently assign tasks to workers, which in turn cons...

The process of match formation in matching markets can be divided into three parts: information sharing, investments in information acquisition, and the formation of matches based on available information. The last stage where agents are assumed to know their preferences has been studied in seminal work of Gale and Shapley (1962), and a model of second stage costly information acquisition is in...

Design of Cellular Manufacturing System involves four major decisions: Cell formation (CF), Group layout (GL), Group scheduling (Gs) and Resource assignment (RA).  These problems should be regarded, concurrently, in order to obtain an optimal solution in a CM environment. In this paper a two stage heuristic procedure is proposed for CF and RA decisions problem. The solution approach contains a ...

In this paper, we introduce a human–robot collaboration (HRC) mold assembly cell to cope with small-volume production and reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) on human worker during manual operation. Besides, wide variety types weights components motivated us design an HRC system that consists two robots. Therefore, propose modes for systems using robots develop task-allocation m...