BTSBTSBusiness Trip SchedulerBusiness Trip Scheduler

BTSBTSBusiness Trip SchedulerBusiness Trip Scheduler

Lital BadashEran BanousYanir Quinn

Academic Advisor: Prof. Ehud Gudes

Technical Advisor: Mr. Eugene Kovalyov (Amdocs) Mr. Haim Bar-Shira

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ContentsContents

About the project

Main System Functionality

System Architecture & Components

Algorithms & Rule Engine

User Interface

Technologies

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Problem Problem DefinitionDefinition

Amdocs employees usually divided to Groups that consists up to 30 people.

Occasionally, each group is signed up for a mission (at customer sites) and it’s manager has to decide which of its members will be sent to the mission.

Selecting employees for the mission often involves the consideration of personal and corporate constraints that can reflect a member or group needs .

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What is BTSWhat is BTS? ?

A web based application that solves the problem of business travel flights assignment for site support.

As input, the application will get a list of team members with their parameters ,constraints and mission details.

The system presents as a result a prioritized list of users for the Business travel flights , taking into account a list of rules and constraints.

Dynamic rule engine for creating removing and process constraints is possible.

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System FunctionalitySystem Functionality

Create a new mission (assignment for site support) - Create a new mission for site support assignment. Including:

Define mission.

Select mission schedules, site location and mission specifications.

Select irrelevant constraints

Select irrelevant team members

All missions can be updated. Manager can edit any of the mission properties in modify scheduled mission.

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Generate List for mission- After creating a new mission, the algorithm can be activated and recommend which of the team members are most preferable to perform the mission. It will generate a list of suitable options in a descending order, taking into account personal and group constraints .

System FunctionalitySystem Functionality

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System System FunctionalityFunctionality

Add/Remove personal constrains –Add/Remove personal constrains from a given template .

Add/Remove Group constraints – Add/Remove Group constrains from a given template that the administrator creates .

Define new constrains templates – Pool of possible constraints subjects are offered to the Administrator who can choose the type of operator and data that he would like to attach to the constraint template

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System System FunctionalityFunctionality

Manage Team Members

Login as Administrator, Manager, Team Member.

Reports

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System ArchitectureSystem Architecture

DB

Client Client Client Client

Web/ApplicationServer

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Main Main ComponentsComponents

Application

Algorithm

DBRule

engine

ConstraintsTripDemands

Output

Input

Constraints TripDemands

Output

Input

User

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AlgoritAlgorithmhm

Input: Mission, Group.

The algorithm first takes only Xi Group that satisfies the basic hard constraints of the mission: Position and Level Of Experience.

Then, the relevant members are sorted. The compare operator takes into account the constraints priorities and the satisfaction of the constraints by the user.

Output: a list of prioritized users including additional information that explains the reason for the user’s priority.

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Rule Rule EngineEngine

Pool of possible constraints subjects are offered to the Administrator who can choose the type of operator and data that he would like to attach to the constraint template

Each group manager may choose a constraint template and fill the data type value. Constraints can be removed.

Each constraint subject is mapped to a function that calculate it’s value according to the db and mission specifics.

User InterfaceUser Interface

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TechnologiesTechnologies

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