Abstract: Computer-aided systems and methods of scheduling resources, such as human resources and temporary human resources in particular, including steps of forecasting a required revenue for an operation in at least one desired time slot, reviewing historical revenue data of said operation or a similar operation, analysing said required revenue and said historical revenue and determining a work effort metric for said at least one desired time slot to meet said required revenue, generated or selecting a template for said at least one desired time slot showing the desired said work effort metric, and filling said template by allocating specific resources to said at least one desired time slot.

Abstract: A system and method for searching a database for multiple entries in the database that contain similar data, in which some embodiments of the method include collating data on physical sites from at least one database source to form a collation of site data, assigning a unique entry identifier to each entry of the site data in the collation, performing a lexical analysis of the site data and assigning a similarity metric(s) to each entry of the site data, sorting site data into at least one group with similar lexical content based on a metric threshold difference analysis of the similarity metric(s), to thereby provide at least one group, having at least one site data entry therein, and wherein where there are two or more site data entries in the at least one group, preferably they refer to the same site or to sites having a similar physical address.

Abstract: A method of indexing data in a multidimensional database includes creating a multidimensional logical access model, creating a multidimensional data storage model in which data is located in cells that are stored and retrieved in blocks, gathering data access information derived from one or more user queries of the database, and reorganizing one or more selected cells in the multidimensional data storage model based on the data access information to reduce the time taken to access the one or more selected cells in response to a user query of the database. A computerized apparatus in communication with a multidimensional database includes a program to perform the method. A computer readable medium contains instructions to cause a computer to perform the method.

Abstract: A method of managing cells formed from a tuple of members in a multidimensional database include treating at least one dimension in the database as a plurality of hierarchically structured members divided into at least two levels, thereby defining a validation curve as the location of an intersection of the levels. What level the cells in the database are located is evaluated. Cells contained in a lower level are managed by automatically indicating them as one of valid and invalid at data load time, and cells contained in an upper level are managed by indicating them as one of valid and invalid according to a method involving at least one of less reading from and writing to the database at data load time than if all the cells in the upper level were indicated as one of valid and invalid at data load time. A computerized database management system uses a communication interface to practice the method.