On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:41:59AM -0400, Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Monday 10 October 2005 15:08, Mike Metcalfe wrote:
> > Tom wrote:
> > Do you know which applications they are looking at? �I wrote a Java
> > timetable generator some years ago for a training centre that ran 6 month
> > learnership programmes. It worked well for them but not so well in a 5 day
> > repeating timetable but that wasn't my focus at the time. I enjoy the
> > problem area and was hoping to one day redevelop it in Python for the
> > schooltool project.
>
> One of my professors in college wrote a timetable and exam setup generator
> for
> our college. Using some graph theory he wrote a tool that ran about one hour
> to calculate the schedule, versus about a week with a previous implementation
> by a company. The moral of the story is that it requires very good math
> skills to implement an effective solution.
Other requirements is that it be simple enough use for people who don't have
very good math skills and general enough to be able to solve most of the
problems out there.
Multiple backends and front-ends would also be nice.
--
Brian Sutherland
Metropolis - "it's the first movie with a robot. And she's a woman.
And she's EVIL!!"
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