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Do you know these killer macOS Terminal commands: pbcopy and pbpaste? Here, ‘pb’ stands for paste bin, a.k.a. the clipboard, that is, the…

Welcome to our 6th and final post in our series on Workforce Optimization. In our prior posts in this series, we learned how to:

In our first 3 blog posts in this series, we learned about the foundational data work required before one can utilize AI software systems…

Workforce Scheduling, Rostering, Field Service Management and Shift Management Software

For workforce optimization, Forecasting is about predicting future demand for work to be done.

What is Meant by Performance Benchmarking in Workforce?

How to use advanced planning and scheduling techniques to keep employees and customers happy while operating efficiently and profitably.

How to use advanced planning and scheduling techniques to keep employees and customers happy while operating efficiently and profitably

IntelliJ IDEA is the recommended IDE to develop applications based on DOC 4.0. It is indeed a well adapted tool when working on…

You write Java code, hence you write JUnit tests. Easy. But you write Java code with Spring, and testing is now getting complicated…

Consider the total number of fingers of as many persons as there are fingers in one of your hand. That number exists independently of how…

This article is an introduction to the concept of type classes in Scala. Type classes provide a way to define functions with different…

There are a number of ways to define mathematical optimization, but one of the better ones is ‘choosing the best/ near-best alternative…

In my previous time working for IBM Australia in Perth, we were approached by a local client with an optimization problem.

The CPLEX Scala Library cplex-scala is an open source library written in Scala to build optimization models for CPLEX. It is available on…

“Data is everywhere” is a common saying nowadays. If only that was true …In this post, I want to stress the point that