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Record W4417229414 · doi:10.1061/9780784486115.025

Dynamic Allocation of Unionized Skilled Trades in Multi-Project Reactive Scheduling Context: Uber-Inspired Application Framework

2025· article· W4417229414 on OpenAlex

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Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicResource-Constrained Project Scheduling
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScheduling (production processes)IdleWork (physics)Resource allocationService (business)Decision support systemProject management

Abstract

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Concurrent construction projects are usually distributed across various geographical locations, each generating labor resource demand for various skilled trades over its project duration. Coupled with the limited and unpredictable availability of skilled trades, this creates a dynamic situation that necessitates reliable and adaptive resource-constrained project scheduling. The management of labor unions needs to cope with this challenge in allocating skilled trades per project demands while addressing constant changes that cause delays, cancellations, or idle time. Additionally, non-unionized workers from open shops who are ready to work can be scheduled to meet the demands. Uber, a ride-hailing service provider, has effectively tackled an analogous scheduling problem. Available drivers are driving in the city, waiting for calls, and signing out whenever they choose. Orders can be placed anytime, and trip information is unpredictable. With drivers’ statuses dynamically updated, Uber utilizes proprietary algorithms to assign orders to drivers based on specific optimization rules. Inspired by the Uber approach, this paper aims to develop a conceptual framework to support union managers in (1) updating the status of trades, projects, and activities; (2) setting various optimization objectives; and (3) rescheduling within a short timeframe. Three application scenarios are postulated to account for the decision support needs of union managers in project planning.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.878
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.009
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.055
GPT teacher head0.401
Teacher spread0.346 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2025
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