On Jan 7, 2008 5:05 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there anything done in SchoolTool towards this? there's always a > puzzle to make up timetable... > I think the need emerges together with the wish/need to make > curriculum more flexible. > What do You and your known school administrators think? Is there a > need for it in SchoolTool?
Hi Jurgis, Yes, there is a need for it, but we're focusing on finishing up some more basic functionality first. The next step will be to see if we can do what we need to do by interfacing with another actively maintained open source timetabling application, like Tablix. --Tom > ps.: > I am from Lithuania, bachelour of applied math, > We had "Mathematical programming (optimization)" by cool old proffesor > Jonas Mockus > http://mockus.org/optimum/ (the root site seem to belong to his son or so) > > He develops the idea of school scedule optimization (using Bayesian > heuristics) for more than five years.. > now there is kind of clumsy implementation in java, done bys students > over years, but it lacks nice UI > and might also lack functionality. > integration with ST and probable rewrite in python might do some good :) > latest papers on it I found http://itc.ktu.lt/itc342/Pupelie342.pdf > http://www.vtex.lt/informatica/htm/INFO355.htm > > > Best regards > > -- > Jurgis Pralgauskis > jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; skype: dz0rdzas; > Don't worry, be happy :) and make things better ;) > _______________________________________________ > Schooltool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool > _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
