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Annotated Bibliography: Employee Scheduling Software

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/030505488690050X The general employee scheduling problem. An integration of MS and AI.

There is vague mention of the complexity of the issue in the article. It should be useful for providing sources to elaborate on the issue on the complexity and problems. Not to provide solutions, but to elaborate on why the software is important.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/716f/f491fe8be17d8b4cb35bd9c5cfcee948e88a.pdf Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload.

Examples of ways to streamline scheduling. Reducing work overload (as the title says.) Sources for existing solutions to the problems presented by scheduling.

https://www.google.com/patents/US7058589 Method and system for employee work scheduling.

A patent for a scheduling system. Simply another example.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037722170300095X Staff scheduling and rostering: A review of applications, methods and models.

A source on reviews of currently existing systems for scheduling. Can be drawn on for content as a source of information.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0272696384900275 A heuristic programming approach to the employee scheduling problem and some thoughts on “managerial robots."

Article example of one possible approach to scheduling. I think it could maybe make a small sub heading. Discusses ways to schedule without the use of "managerial robots" and how this may improve productivity.

Article Evaluation: Employee Scheduling Software

There's nothing there. The article appears to have been turned into an article review.

I will be attempting to revert the article now...

The original article is the wrong article. It is all wrong. It needs a total revision. I will probably be reverting the article back to the evaluation because it was honestly better.

I do quote, from the original article "“Gender and Public Administration” Pussy Power Trevor Callarman (Trevorcallarman) Holly Doyle (H.k.d.29) Erica Hylemon (Ehylemon) Tyler McDonald (Tmcdonald729) Kelly Phan (khp10) March 25, 2015"

With the assistance of Robert Fox, I have finally located an article which does appear to be the one the topic. It has the same name as the one I am linked to, but actually has the data we need to be editing on it.

The Article is brief, it has not citations at all for the second paragraph and a list of features which could use cleaning. This article would be a great Stub article if it had more citations. There are at least 4 "citation needed" marks on the page. Much of the information in this article could be condensed and expanded on. Research was clearly done, but the article is primarily a source for links to information about different kinds of scheduling software, as opposed to information about scheduling software.

The article is a stub article in the best sense with the exception of the missing references. The article makes some note of theoretical scenarios, which is perhaps not appropriate given the encyclopedic nature of wikipedia articles. To reference to theory would be better than to speak in theory as an article creator.

Almost everything in the article comes from the same 5 citations. Citations 4 and 5 are referenced the most frequently in an exhaustive manner that suggests that for much of the article those references were the only source of information.

It is a brief article with much to improve upon, but lays a good foundation for that very improvement.

Lead Paragraph for Employee scheduling software

Employee scheduling software automates the process of creating and maintaining a schedule. Automating the scheduling of employees increased productivity and made many secretarial and manual scheduling positions obsolete. Such software will usually track vacation time, sick time, compensation time, and alert when there are conflicts. As scheduling data is accumulated over time, it may be extracted for payroll or to analyze past activity. Although employee scheduling software may or may not make optimization decisions, it does manage and coordinate the tasks.

Today’s employee scheduling software often includes mobile applications. Mobile scheduling further increased scheduling productivity and eliminated inefficient scheduling steps.

This software may be a part of an ERP package or other human resource management system.