Patent ID: 8577708

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for forming a schedule for security workers comprising: forecasting, by a computer, a demand for a security checkpoint for a site for a plurality of time intervals, wherein the forecasting the demand comprises: determining a preliminary demand for the security checkpoint based on a total number of users of the site; and adjusting the preliminary demand to determine actual forecasted demand for the security checkpoint based on a reduction in demand caused by users expected to use the site without passing through the checkpoint; modeling, by the computer, a needed number of stations in the security checkpoint for the time intervals to meet the forecasted demand, wherein the stations are each associated with at least one task; scheduling, by the computer, a number of workers for staffing the selected number of stations for each of the time intervals, wherein the scheduling further comprises: defining, by the computer, a preliminary number of workers for staffing the selected number of stations for each of the time intervals based on a first staff-to-station relationship between the workers and stations in the selected number of stations; relating tasks at two or more of the selected number of stations; and adjusting the preliminary number of workers to reflect a second and different staff-to-station relationship between the workers and two or more of the stations based on the related tasks at the two or more of the stations.