Project Title: Representation and Evaluation of Constraints in Workforce Scheduling
Student: Jinghong Ye
Course: Bsc in Computer Science and Business Management Studies

Abstract:
All the rules about managing business in today's environment have changed. And the times 
are compelling. Nowadays, in order to remain competitive, leading companies employ dynamic 
and flexible workforce. Managing complex and decentralized worker populations comprised of 
various aspects including direct employees, temporary and contingent workers, pay-rolled 
resources and independent contractors, which can absolutely be a daunting task. As a manager, 
driving and managing business has never been more challenging, even if the foremost task - to 
schedule the employees. Therefore, to analyze different typical workforces, and then based on 
which to build efficient systems to help the managers handle this problem is definitely necessary.
The primary aim of this project is to investigate the logical constraints exist in different workforce 
scheduling system via a series of case studies and to represent and evaluate them as a basis of 
producing a system which will improve upon the methods that is currently in use. The paper provides 
fundamental knowledge-base suited for workforce scheduling system development technicians to 
build specific systems according to the different classical type of workforce with different constraints.