Haris987
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7 years ago From algorithm side, input parameters are pretty simple and straight-forward as described in description of daily-scheduling-calendar. There are few options, it all depends how we will show the result. In algorithm we need following info:
- List of persons to assign duties to (algorithm do not really care about their names or anything else, so it can be array of numbers, like 1, 2, 3, etc ...)
- List of days to which to assign people (again, it is not important to algorithm any info about days, it is not important if it can be array of numbers like 1, 2, 3, 4, etc ...)
- For every person we need array of days which can be some dictionary where every person would have array of available (or probably better of unavailable days depending how users will be entering it)
- For every day we need number of scheduled duties for that day, so it can be some dictionary dayId=>numOfDuties
- Max number of iterations for algorithm
# Option 1: Create classes for Person and ScheduledDays and send array of Persons and array of ScheduledDays and maxNumOfIterrations to algorithm. class Person{ int personId; some unique id, probably best 1, 2, 3, 4, ... int[] availableDay; => list of ids of available days (or unavailable depending on way user is entering it) ... any other info you want to add for a person }
class ScheduledDays{ int id; => some unique id, probably best 1, 2, 3, 4, etc ... int numOfDuties; number of duties to assign for that day ... any other info you want to have for ScheduledDays }
# Option2: Send 5 parameters to algorithm: persons_array => list of ids of persons (list of integers 1, 2, 3, 4, ...) scheduled_days_array => list of ids of scheduled days (list of integers 1, 2, 3, 4 ...) availability_days => dictionary which have keys from persons_array and value for each key is list of available days for each person (days should be some of the days from scheduled_days_array) scheduled_days_duties => dictionary which have keys from scheduled_days_array and values some integer which defines number of duties for that day number_of_iterations => integer number
Response will be list of persons where every person have list of assigned duties. Assigned duty will be pair (x, y) where x is day id and y is duty slot for day x.
I am open (and fine with) any other suggestions as long as I get available data for algorithm. This is something out of head to start discussion.
ronaldtse
Bogdan-Kalynovskyi
For @Haris987 @easy-one: please discuss here to agree on the interface for the various algorithm inputs and outputs so we can separate out the work.