Question: For this program, you will use a genetic algorithm to attempt to build a space utilization schedule. A client agency has been attempting to develop
For this program, you will use a genetic algorithm to attempt to build a space utilization schedule. A client agency has been attempting to develop a better method of scheduling their activities. There are many competing factors in scheduling, so a single ideal schedule may not be possible. (This is a simplified version of the real problem.) All of these activities are scheduled for MWF, for 50 minutes, so we need only determine the time slot, room, and facilitator for each activity. The Sophisticated Learning Association (SLA) has several activities available and has full control of those rooms and can put activities into any time slot they wish. (Typically this is not the case in real world scheduling for potentially conflicting departments or agencies.) Each facilitator tends to work best overseeing a small group of activities, but the same activity isn't always provided by the same facilitator, and the same facilitator doesn't always teach the same activity. Thus, each activity has a list of a few facilitators who are preferred for overseeing that activity, and a few others who are able to "cross over" to that activity. Any activity can also be overseen by any facilitator, but
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