Drag and drop. Visualization. Scheduling conferences is as much an optimization problem as it is a political problem.
Ask HN: What algorithms should I research to code a conference scheduling app
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Re: Ask HN: What algorithms should I research to code a conference scheduling app
#22Check HasGeek, they have open source platform for this.
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Re: Ask HN: What algorithms should I research to code a conference scheduling app
#23Someone might have already done this before. The apps below are mostly for reserving conference rooms, but there might be one that handles voting and constraint satisfaction.
Re: Ask HN: What algorithms should I research to code a conference scheduling app
#24Your problem is a scheduling problem. It has been well studied in operations research [1] / mathematical optimization [2]. Basically, you formulate your problem as a integer programming model [3] and use a solver [4] to solve it. You should check PuLP [5]. You can also ask your question at OR Exchange [6]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimizatio…
ALLOCATING CONFERENCE DELEGATES TO WORKSHOPS: A SPECIAL TIMETABLING PROBLEM --
"The problem of assigning delegates to workshops at a conference can be formulated as a timetabling problem. Such an assignment must take into account the preferences of the delegates, as well as the number of participants each workshop can accommodate. This paper will report on a heuristic solution technique for a special case of such a problem."