Greetings,
I would like to use Oz to write a simple staff scheduler for my group's on
call schedule. Can anyone recommend a good starting point for writing
this program? An example program, a library I should use, or a tutorial?
I looked at the examples included in Mozart Oz's documentation but none
really fit my problem. My best guess right now is to use the Schedule
library, though I'm not sure where interface documentation for that can be
found.
Here's a little more about the problem I want to solve..
The variables are:
numOnCall = # of people on call at a time
numShifts = # of shifts
lengthShift = length of a shift (eg two weeks)
totalNumPeople = # of people available to be on call
Constraints are:
1. produce *numShifts* lists
2. each list should have *numOnCall* names
3. each list must have unique names
4. a name that occurs in list n cannot occur in list (n+1) (ie, a person
can't be on call twice in a row)
5. names must appear an equal number of times (or as close to equal as
possible)
6. distribution of names should be spaced out as much as possible over
time (ie, don't make someone be on call only during the first half of the
year)
7. try to spread out who is on call with who (ie, "john" should not always
only be on call with "jane")
I would be happy if I could implement 1-5. Six and seven would be nice
but are not necessary.
Thank you,
Rob
Robert Hawkins
Software Engineer
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
* [email protected] | ( 212.849.4020
FactSet Research Systems Inc.
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