Patent ID: 8126758

Claim:
A method of information boosting in workforce related data sources, comprising: identifying employee information data source describing a plurality of workers and associated skills; identifying project claims data source describing a plurality of past projects and associated staffing; identifying project template data source providing information associated with a plurality of types of projects and estimated staffing for said types of projects; estimating, by a processor, staffing of past projects based on said employee information data source, said project claims data source and said project template data source, said estimating including at least estimating one or more assignments in which one or more employees in said past projects were engaged; determining one or more skill assignment errors in the employee information data source based on said estimated staffing of past project, wherein determining said one or more skill assignment errors include computing a measure of frequency of an employee being assigned in a skill that is not associated with the employee according to the employee information data source, and calculating a correlation of the skill not associated with the employee to one or more skills associated with said employee; updating said employee information data source according to said identified one or more errors; and updating said project template data source based on said estimated staffing of past projects, wherein the step of updating the employee information data source includes updating said employee information data source if said one or more skill assignment errors meet a predetermined threshold.