Problem 45450. Don't be Too Greedy!
Refer to the prev problem https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/45416-don-t-be-greedy
A list of assignments is given to the students. For this problem, assume - each of the assignment carries equal marks.
Different assignments take different amounts of time to complete - which is also given.
But for each day of delay before starting an assignment, a penalty is added.
for example,
Assignment = [ a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6] Marks = [100,100,100,100,100,100] Time Req. = [ 2, 4, 3, 8, 1, 10] Penalty = [ 10, 4, 1, 2, 5, 2]
Now, say if he starts with the 1st assignment - then a penalty will be added to all the other assignments for two days since it takes 2 days to complete the 1st assignment.
Then say he starts the 2nd assignment which takes 4 days to complete. So penalty will be added for the other assignments that he hasn't started yet (not the 1st one--since it's been finished)
In which order should he finish his assignments so that he has to suffer the minimum penalty.
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Can you give more explain about the example?
say i start 1st assign. today -- now it'll take me 2 days to complete. once I start with one assign, I've to finish it first - then jump to the next assign.
Now for these 2 days, I couldn't 'start' the other assign. so i've to suffer given penalty for each assign. each day. that is = 4*2 + 1*2 + 2*2 + 5*2 + 2*2 .= Σt(1)*p
After 2 days, say I start the last assign. which will take 10 days to finish. so for each of these 10 days - the penalty will keep adding for those assigns. that I've not yet started.
this way I'll continue.
at the end, a particular amount of penalty will be accumulated.
I want that total penalty to be minimum.
there'll be many combinations - among all those, which one will give me minimum penalty?
hope it is clear
OK, I see now
It seems that these problems have multiple degenerate solutions. For example, problem 1 is solved by [1 5 2 3 4 6] or [5 1 2 3 4 6]. Problem 2 has 4 solutions.
william,
if there exists more than one possible scenario, then the assignments are to be assigned based on their priority - meaning, 1st task should get preference over 5th.
similar is in the case of test suite 2 -- a3 should come before a6.
I think it should be ok then.
Please, Asif, add the example that you gave in the comments to the problem description. It will make the problem clearer.
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