Patent ID: 8626429

Claim:
A method for distributing workload to dispatcher positions, the method comprising: receiving, via a processing system, a plurality of flight leg attributes for each flight leg within a planning horizon, each flight leg having effort to be assigned; receiving, via the processing system, a plurality of position attributes for each position available to be assigned effort within the planning horizon; aggregating, via the processing system, flight legs within the planning horizon that repeat during the planning horizon into a meta-period; assigning, via the processing system, effort of the aggregated flight legs within the meta-period to positions within the meta-period; deaggregating, via the processing system, the assigned effort of the aggregated flight legs within the meta-period to the respective positions throughout the planning horizon; and assigning, via the processing system, effort of flight legs within the planning horizon that do not repeat during the planning horizon to the positions.