A genetic interval type-2 fuzzy logic based approach for operational resource planning

Within service providing industries, one of the challenges facing resource planners is to match the demand for services by trying to utilize the available resources as best as possible. The problem faced by the operational resource planner is to build a refined plan of tasks to resources for each day in a manner that the plan can be directly dispatched to the distributed available engineering field force. In this paper, we will introduce a genetic hierarchical interval type-2 fuzzy logic based operational planner. We will present experiments which will show that the proposed system is able to produce more efficient plans when compared to the traditional crisp logic based algorithms which employ hill climbing heuristic based search techniques. We will show also that the proposed system outperforms the type-1 fuzzy logic based counterparts. © 2013 IEEE.