todo

用遗传算法写的软件,非常有用! 值得大家一看!

GENERAL:
- Change "Equipments" into "Equipment"
- Check the memory leaks. In Valgrind it shows some leakage, I don't know where from
- Add translation in other languages
- Command line options.
- Add make install. Where should I place the executable?
- Proper help files.
- CVS support?
- Compare this program with proprietary (non-free) applications.
I saw that the only applications which use a text input file are "Mimosa" and,
more recently, "Lantiv".
- Collect results obtained by people worldwide. More input files required.


TECHNICAL:
- ConstraintActivitiesSameEndingTime
- ConstraintActivitiesNotConsecutive
- ConstraintActivityRejectedTime ?
- ConstraintStudentsNoGaps: is it better to consider the importance of
a gap as 1 or as its length? Currently, it is considered 1.
- ConstraintStudentsMaxGapsDaily


WISHLIST:

1----------several users----------------------------------
- Improve user interface - add help and wizard.

2---------------------------------------------------------
From Michael Towers:

"
** Why are such configuration values set as constants which are then compiled into the 
program? Wouldn't it be better to put these into a resource file, loaded at run time?

** What about a rewrite of the front end in a scripting language - e.g. Python? It might speed 
development and help debugging. It could also make maintenance of the code easier.

** Is there some way of doing "interactive" timetable development? The human would make 
suggestions, or place some items, run the program, maybe move a few things around, run the 
program again ... (Liviu: it would be very simple, the algorithm supports that. Only the 
interface has to be updated)

** A clear and clean interface to your evolutionary engine as an entity separate from the 
input/output might be useful.
"

"How compatible my idea of manual intervention is with the genetic algorithm is not clear to me.
Actually a purely manual approach would probably disallow clashes completely and offer all 
sorts of visual signals to show where activities could or could not be scheduled, 
which activities could be scheduled in a particular period, etc. This is something completely 
different to what you have been working on. Maybe there is some middle way, but I feel some 
of this stuff would actually be necessary (I do not yet believe that it is practicable to 
generate timetables purely automatically - the requirements and constraints are too diverse).

It seems to me, it should be possible (but of course only after a lot of work!) to have 
a beautiful manual timetable editor (which can also print the various timetables, and 
perhaps save the data sets and results in a database) with an interface to an automatic 
timetable scheduler which can be used to speed up the work."

3---------------------------------------------------------
From TheStar:

A constraint to think about is that some activities, and I suspect 'normal school management'
talks about teachers as in "One teacher per x students".

In the HSC year here, it's about one teacher per 26 students (or something like that).
At a recent excursion, it was one teacher per 10 students.  Hope that helps :)

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> Of course, you can add each student. I could have implemented this solution.
> But I doubt that the user has such patience :-)

You could always autogenerate the students...
"Quick-Build Students"
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