Re: Education Program (Scheduler)

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:28:49AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> We want to work on the program to organize automatically the
> schedule of a school given constraints about teachers,
> rooms, times, and students. We believe some work must
> already have been done in this field. 
> 
> Please let us know any relevant details.

Nitin,

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