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AI ideally matches children to daycare centres

AI ideally matches children to daycare centres

For:
City officials, daycare centres, applicants
Goal:
Improved Customer Experience
Problem addressed
To automatically determine the assignment pattern that is expected to fulfil the
preferences of as many applicants as possible.
Scope of use case
Assignment pattern that satisfies applicants' complex requirements.
Description
The number of children on daycare centre waiting lists has
become a social issue. Matching children to daycare centres
while accommodating each family's preferences is time- and
labour-intensive for local governments.
The basic goal of daycare admissions screening is to satisfy
the preferences of applicants according to the priority
ranking of children in consideration of the number of places
in each daycare centre. In addition, each local government
can incorporate more complex requirements, such as
applicants who want their siblings assigned to the same
daycare centre and who want siblings assigned in the same
period, in order to increase the satisfaction of applicants.
Saitama city government has eight requirements concerning
sibling admissions as well as the timing of the siblings
admissions. The screening rule thus became more complex,
and consequently there are cases where multiple assignment
patterns can fulfil the rule, or no patterns fulfil the rule. This
means the city officials are required to take a long time to
carefully determine the assignment of applicants to be
absolutely sure that the relevant rules have been correctly
fulfilled.
This AI technology has made it possible to match children to
daycare centres, meeting as many preferences as possible,
following a priority ranking. This is done by modelling the
dependency relationships of complex requirements,
including parents who prioritize siblings going to the same
daycare centre, or parents who do not mind if their children
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go to different daycare centres as long as both children get a
seat, using a mathematical model based on game theory,
which rationally resolves the relationships between people
having differing values. When this technology was evaluated
using anonymized data from about eight thousand children
in the city of Saitama, it successfully calculated an optimal
assignment result in just a few seconds.
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