Techniques for crowdsourcing and dynamically updating computer-aided schedules

A computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing unit, cause the processing unit to automatically determine the timing of linearly dependent events by performing the steps of:

• detecting that a first event included in an original scheduled sequence of events has not completed by a scheduled completion time based on a current time;
• determining that a second event included in the original scheduled sequence of events has a first dependency on the completion of the first event;
• updating one or more temporal properties associated with the second event based on the current time to generate a third event;
• and
• generating, via a processor, a modified scheduled sequence of events that includes the third event instead of the second event.

A system, comprising:

• a memory storing instructions;
• and
• a processor that is coupled to the memory and, when executing the instructions, is configured to:
• detect that a first event included in an original scheduled sequence of events has not completed by a scheduled completion time based on a current time;
• determine that a second event included in the original scheduled sequence of events has a first dependency on the completion of the first event;
• update one or more temporal properties associated with the second event based on the current time to generate a third event;
• and
• generate, via a processor, a modified scheduled sequence of events that includes the third event instead of the second event.