Hi!
Essentially, I would love if someone could help point me to an article, some key words I could search in google or the 'realm' of math under which the following problem would fall:
-I have 'x' workers.
-X is a positive integer, not equal to zero.
-These 'x' workers make up a 'pool' of workers.
-Each worker within the pool has a number of work-items they currently have on their plate, and their capacity.
-Work-items are essentially that, work that is assigned to them.. if I was given 10 'widgets' or 'work-items', my work-items would be at 10.
-Capacity is a percentage representing how much work one worker would get relative to others in their pool. For example, we have a pool of workers that consists of myself and one other worker, if I'm at 70% capacity, and the other worker is at 100% capacity, he would have the better chance of getting the next work item.
The problem/question: With the given information about a worker (current work items and their capacity), how can you figure out what worker would be best to serve the next work item? By best, I mean has the most bandwidth to take on the work-item.
Example- we have 4 workers in the pool with 5, 6, 7, and 8 work-items each, respectively. Their respective capacities are 50%, 90%, 70% and 60%. Who would be the best worker to take on the next work item?
I was handed this problem to solve at work - but I need some leads on how one could go about solving it - what type of math does this fall under? Articles you could point me to? Keywords to google? I don't know if I have enough information to make this decision either.I googled distribution methods (I have a computer science degree, not math
) but got a lot of hits that don't appear to apply in this type of problem.
Thank you for any direction you can provide!!!!
Essentially, I would love if someone could help point me to an article, some key words I could search in google or the 'realm' of math under which the following problem would fall:
-I have 'x' workers.
-X is a positive integer, not equal to zero.
-These 'x' workers make up a 'pool' of workers.
-Each worker within the pool has a number of work-items they currently have on their plate, and their capacity.
-Work-items are essentially that, work that is assigned to them.. if I was given 10 'widgets' or 'work-items', my work-items would be at 10.
-Capacity is a percentage representing how much work one worker would get relative to others in their pool. For example, we have a pool of workers that consists of myself and one other worker, if I'm at 70% capacity, and the other worker is at 100% capacity, he would have the better chance of getting the next work item.
The problem/question: With the given information about a worker (current work items and their capacity), how can you figure out what worker would be best to serve the next work item? By best, I mean has the most bandwidth to take on the work-item.
Example- we have 4 workers in the pool with 5, 6, 7, and 8 work-items each, respectively. Their respective capacities are 50%, 90%, 70% and 60%. Who would be the best worker to take on the next work item?
I was handed this problem to solve at work - but I need some leads on how one could go about solving it - what type of math does this fall under? Articles you could point me to? Keywords to google? I don't know if I have enough information to make this decision either.I googled distribution methods (I have a computer science degree, not math
) but got a lot of hits that don't appear to apply in this type of problem.Thank you for any direction you can provide!!!!