1. A method for computerized batching of huge populations of electronic documents, including computerized assignment of electronic documents into at least one sequence of electronic document batches such that each document is assigned to a batch in the sequence of batches and such that absent conflict between batching requirements, the following batching requirements being maintained by a suitably programmed processor: a. pre-defined subsets of documents are always kept together in the same batch b. batches are equal in size c. the population is partitioned into clusters and all documents in any given batch belong to a single cluster rather than to two or more clusters, the method also comprising filling batches, separately for each of several clusters, including first using large keep-together sets as batches and then combining keep-together sets other than the large sets into batches and finally ordering the resulting batches into a sequence according to urgency.
1. A method for computerized batching of huge populations of electronic documents, including computerized assignment of electronic documents into at least one sequence of electronic document batches such that each document is assigned to a batch in the sequence of batches and such that absent conflict between batching requirements, the following batching requirements being maintained by a suitably programmed processor: a. pre-defined subsets of documents are always kept together in the same batch b. batches are equal in size c. the population is partitioned into clusters and all documents in any given batch belong to a single cluster rather than to two or more clusters, the method also comprising filling batches, separately for each of several clusters, including first using large keep-together sets as batches and then combining keep-together sets other than the large sets into batches and finally ordering the resulting batches into a sequence according to urgency. 2. The method according to claim 1 wherein absent conflict between batching requirements, the following batching requirement is also maintained: positions of documents within the sequence of batches are determined by the document's pre-known urgency for review such that highly urgent documents appear in early batches and less urgent documents appear in later batches.