A Detailed Conceptual Approach to Resources Allocation Scheduling

The problem of scheduling and allocation of resources, both space and time, has generated a lot of issues and has become of great concerns in daily human activities. The choice of best or appropriate computational algorithms for solving this problem has been the subject of several seminars and conferences organized to discuss the allocation of resources in different fields. The problem of resource scheduling deals with various criteria that are involved in the allocation of resources and associated variation on how the resources are to be allocated. The scheduling of an allocation of resources requires proper management of resources and time for various users to avoid clashes in timing of events. This paper presents a conceptual framework for solving resource allocation scheduling problems using timetabling as a representative scheduling problem requiring proper management of resources and time for various users to avoid clashes in timing of events. The work identifies the constraints involved in algorithms that have been used to solve several timetabling problem like airplane roster, lecture schedules, etc. The paper attempts to identify a good framework for the use of fuzzy algorithm implementation that will be of great value to those resolving timetabling oriented problems. The needed future works include implementation of these framework concepts for the grouping of resources when there are no venue capacities to handle such resources. A web implementation of the framework is highly desirable and also the development of other constraint-based scheduling activities like examination timetable could be incorporated into it.