On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 05:39 Australia/Sydney, Alex Rice wrote: > > The company does estimation modeling for construction projects, school > districts, national parks, and others. By asking a series of questions > about the spaces needed, who will be using the spaces and how, > formulas are applied, and space and cost estimates are produced. Or > for school districts, enrollment estimates are produced. School > districts, too.
Alex Can you reduce those formulae ultimately to a single score (which may be a weighted combination of sub-scores)? If so, it sounds to me that a GA could do what you want and it is not difficult to implement in Rev. GAs are especially good at munging multiple issues, just so long as, eventually, you can single-score a solution. Mixing score weightings to achieve that is something you can do with user controls rather than embedding, if you are unsure of what the weightings should be. regards David > > >> How fast does it need to be? > > Speed probably won't be an issue... we're not predicting the stock > market here :-) (Would that I could...) A GA should find good solutions in seconds to minutes, not hours or days. cheers David > > Alex Rice, Software Developer > Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
