timeslots

A Data Structure to represent bookable timeslots

What suggestions do people have for a timeslot data structure? I have a number of activities and I'm planning to display them in a datagrid with days as columns and timeslots as rows. This suggests to me a timeslot data structure with 5 properties for the five days (the columns) for every value I want to use e.g. a timeslot ID and the n...

Worker/Timeslot permutation/constraint filtering algorithm

Hope you can help me out with this guys. It's not help with work -- it's for a charity of very hard working volunteers, who could really use a less confusing/annoying timetable system than what they currently have. If anyone knows of a good third-party app which (certainly) automate this, that would almost as good. Just... please don'...

Batch Scheduling algorithm with variable slot length, simplest possible

I am trying to implement an Oracle pl/sql script to batch insert appointments into a database. The application is for managing appointments for operators/offices as follow: There are X offices, each having Y number of operators. (Ex: Office #1 has 4 Operators, #2 has 6, etc) Each office has difference opening hours, defined in ...