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scheduling is a classic mgmt. science problem.

• xapata 10y ago
  But once you get into the modeling of how many customers come in at what hour and how likely they are to purchase how much conditioned on the staff present, it's a learning problem.
  • philip1209 10y ago
    It's a pipeline. Check out this [1] paper about the Taco Bell scheduling system. It's forecasting (stats, but would probably be called ML if paper wasn't in 1998) -> queuing theory (markov chains, sometimes formula-based, sometimes simulated) -> scheduling (normally mixed integer linear programming) [1] http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/inte.28.1.75 http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/inte.28.1.75
    • xapata 10y ago
      Eh, what the heck, with enough layers (and enough data) a neural network will eventually create a neuron for each of those tasks. Just let it train for a few years.
      • xapata 10y ago
        BTW, that was a joke.