Conference heron::euro_swas_ai

210.0. "Resource Scheduling Productivity Tool." by CHEVIE::FITZGIBBON (Joe Fitzgibbon EIC-AI Engineering) Fri Jul 06 1990 11:32

	The Valbonne EIC/AI Engineering team would like your feedback on
	your perceived need for a "Resource Constrained SCheduling Productivity
	Tool" for Customer projects. Such a tool would, ideally, allow the 
	creation of applications such as, 

	    Curricula Scheduling,	Planned Maintenance Scheduling,
	    Transport Scheduling,       etc.....


	The current prototype supports the specification of the information 
        needs, creates a RDB database and generations the necessary
	access routines. It also supports the specification of constraints 
        which are to be applied to resources and the scheduling heuristics
	employed for a particular application space, as well as providing some
	commonly used heuristics such as "Choose earliest date first".	

        The current prototype will perform automatic scheduling (and will 
	avoid eeeendless loops on impossible schedules), as well as providing
	"expert support" to a user who wishes to modify the automated results,
	or develop a schedule manually.

	Your comments on the "market potential" will be appreciated.

Thanks,
	Joe.