Patent ID: 7249047
Filing Date: 2007-07-24
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A parameter driven system for generating in near real time an optimal solution in response to employee transfer requests and leave requests for an entire enterprise, which comprises; receiving means for providing input data including employee data, parameter values configuration settings, said transfer requests, and said leave requests from a user; and optimization processor means in electrical communication with said receiving means for automatically generating a mixed integer programming model with decision variables and constraints from said input data, and solving said mixed integer programming model in near real time to generate awards to employees including said transfer requests, said leave requests, new hire location assignments, and last half period new hire location assignments, wherein the optimization processor optimally awards transfer and leave requests based on seniority of the employee, and wherein said constraints include the following seniority transfer processing constraints: wherein k, k′ are employees; i, i′, j, j′ are locations; j is a set of locations; Φ Φ′ x y