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Preference-based task assignment

Let people do what they love to do

Assign a task to a person based on the person’s preference. Preference is defined as a set of activities that the person has an inclination towards and hence may have been executed more often along with higher execution efficiency by a person

Goel, K., Fehrer, T., Röglinger, M., & Wynn, M. T. (2023). Not Here, But There: Human Resource Allocation Patterns. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 377–394).

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Determine whether activities are related to the same type of case and, if necessary, distinguish new business processes

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Allocate task based on collaborative experience: handover time, interactions, diversity

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