Project Title: Intelligent Optimisation on a Smartphone for Cinema Worker Scheduling
Student: Aidan Sabin 
Course: BSc Hons Computer Science
	
Abstract:
Workforce scheduling is a complex process that can have drastic consequences for costs, 
employee satisfaction, and operational efficiency. Advancements in optimisation techniques 
and computational power have led to automatic workforce scheduling solutions that are tailor 
made for the industries they serve. This is true for industries as diverse as nursing, retail, and 
manufacturing. This project proposes the application of automatic workforce scheduling for 
cinemas – a unique problem domain that has previously received little attention when designing 
such scheduling solutions.
Furthermore, existing solutions leverage expensive cloud-computing solutions and typically 
require the user to be at their desktop. This project leverages the power of the user’s 
smartphone to perform optimisations with a tailor-made SA metaheuristic, hosted within an 
Android application that provides cinema managers with a scheduling tool they can use to 
quickly generate efficient employee schedules without being confided to their office.