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Adam Griff <griff@lampur.cs.colorado.edu> wrote:
>
>I am trying to scheduling  a summer program.

>Does anyone know of a program on the market that could solve this problem?
>If not, is this a common problem with a known algorithm.  The brute
>force method is definitely not an acceptable solution.  The goal is to
>have an equitable solution, it need not be the absolute best solution.

This is a very common problem. Scheduling, planning, and timetabling
problems come up all the time in the newsgroup comp.constraints. You
could also look at sci.op-research. The FAQs for these two groups
mention many products.

(If you think there are many many solutions, but you want a near-optimal
one, use simulated annealing or genetic algorithms. If you think that
there are probably not all that many solutions, and any solution is
acceptable, use constraint logic programming, as discussed in
comp.constraints.)

Michael