On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 15:09 -0400, Aziz Saleh wrote: > DB or flatfile? > > I would create a matrix of all kids crossed with every kid. Everytime a kid > is put in a home with another kid, ++ that index. When dispatching kids, > sort by index ASC. > > Aziz > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:01 PM, John Meyer <johnmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > On 10/1/2013 12:51 PM, Floyd Resler wrote: > > > >> Here's my task: A group of kids is going to be staying with different > >> host families throughout the next 8 months. The number of kids staying > >> with a host family can range from 2 to 10. When deciding which kids should > >> stay together at a host family, the idea is for the system to put together > >> kids who have stayed with each other the least on past weekends. So, if a > >> host family can keep 5 kids, then the group of 5 kids who have stayed > >> together the least will be chosen. > >> > >> I can't think of an easy, quick way to accomplish this. I've tried > >> various approaches that have resulted in a lot of coding and being very > >> slow. My idea was to give each group of kids a score and the lowest score > >> is the group that is selected. However, this approach wound of iterating > >> through several arrays several times which was really slow. Does anyone > >> have any ideas on this puzzle? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> Floyd > >> > >> > >> Whatever solution you're going with will probably involve a relational > > database of some sort. > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > This sounds remarkably like homework, which we can't help you with unless you've got a specific problem that you're stuck with. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
