Project Title: Developing Mobile Applications to Solve Workforce Scheduling
Student: Andreas Kafkalias
Course: MSc Management of IT

Abstract:
This Master Thesis presents a system that consist of both mobile and desktop technologies to
assist in the creation of the weekly schedule in a company. Every organization needs fast and
efficient scheduling. The manager's task to complete that schedule with traditional techniques
like pen and paper, can be difficult, time consuming and in some cases, overwhelming. Various
approaches to pacify the scheduling labyrinth while attaining optimization are presented in this
report. Problems like these are called Workforce Scheduling or Staff Scheduling problems and
are usually encountered in Operations Research literature. Using optimization techniques from
the ?eld of Operations Research we created a very effcient and promising system to create the
weekly schedule of a company by reducing the cost of payment and satisfying the employees by
assigning them to their preferable days off. Using smart phones within the system it becomes
more ?exible and useful. The ?eld of Operations Research promises great advantages when it is
integrated with new technologies.