in reply to Re: Efficient Assignment of Many People To Many Locations?
in thread Efficient Assignment of Many People To Many Locations?
To paraphrase my comment in a recent node, Re: Student Class Section Lottery, if you generate about 30 random solutions and score them with some kind of criteria, the top scorer has a high likelihood of being close to the optimal solution.
(I'm happy to share this as one of the most useful/interesting things I learned in all my college days, from an Operations Research class some 20+ years ago. :-)
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Re^3: Efficient Assignment of Many People To Many Locations?
by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 25, 2005 at 22:40 UTC | |
by ff (Hermit) on Feb 26, 2005 at 02:06 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 26, 2005 at 06:19 UTC | |
by ff (Hermit) on Feb 27, 2005 at 01:35 UTC |
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