Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:08, David Guest wrote: >> Tony Lembke wrote: >>> Thanks Horst. >>> I think she meant software that would enable you to feed in 10 doctors >>> names, and their proposed holidays and special conditions, and it >>> would automatically draw up a roster for the year to come. >> Sounds like you want Subversion on Rails, Tony. Someone is going to have >> to resolve conflicts and when doctors are involved that's never pretty. >> >> David > No, he needs a glider pilots availability roster, and it's been seen on > nat-div enough times
If there is serious interest in this, then it might be worth getting in touch with Jeff Kingston at the School of IT at Sydney Uni. Jeff is working on open source scheduling software, with emphasis on schools and solving the formidable courses/students/lecturers/lecture-theatres timetabling problem - keeping as many people as happy as possible with as few clashes as possible - simultaneously for dozens of courses and hundreds of students. Scheduling 10 doctors should be possible. See http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/ - there is an online demo of his school scheduling stuff - but the interface leaves a lot to be desired and it takes quite some time to get far enough to see what it does - but as a source of sophisticated algorithmic code for solving the scheduling problem - Jeff's your man. Someone else might want to build the user interface, though. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
