Article ID: | iaor19961277 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 46 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 1102 |
End Page Number: | 1110 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1995 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Wren Anthony, Zhao Liping, Kwan Raymond, S.K. |
Keywords: | scheduling, artificial intelligence: expert systems |
This paper reports research on an estimator of bus driver duties. The estimator simulates rules in the manual scheduling process; it produces the number of duties likely to be required in a driver schedule. The development of this system involved a series of learning processes, concerning knowledge acquisition and the solution of real problems. The paper describes how the knowledge of scheduling is formulated and built into the estimator.