PESQUISA OPERACIONAL E GRADE HORÁRIA: UM NOVO SOFTWARE ÚTIL À OTIMIZAÇÃO DO USO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS

Abstract

With the increasing complexity of educational initiatives, several challenges arise as to appropriately allocate human and material resources or how to select alternative investments within a portfolio. Due to the complexity, solutions based on intuition are risky, which leads to a search for less intuitive and more reliable ways of solving educational problems. An engineering approach to the problem may lead to Operations Research mathematical modeling as a way to help on finding the solution for time tabling. It is in this context that the Operations Research, a multidisciplinary discipline with a strong base in the mathematical sciences, comes to give its contribution. In this perspective, this paper discusses the applicability of Operations Research to educational initiatives. At the same time, the text also features new and useful software to optimize the use of human resources.

Index Terms - Management, Operations Research, Decision Support Software.