Scheduling appointments at trade events for the Australian tourist commission

Authors:
A. T. Ernst;R. G. J. Mills;P. Welgama
Affiliations:
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Private Bag 10, Clayton South MDC Vic 3169, Australia;CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Private Bag 10, Clayton South MDC Vic 3169, Australia;Rio Tinto Technical Services, 1 Turner Avenue, Technology Park Bentley WA, Australia
Venue:
Interfaces
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Many trade events include appointments between buyers and sellers. Each buyer indicates preferences for meetings with various sellers and vice versa. We developed an assignment model and implemented it in the SATE (scheduling appointments at trade events) software. SATE maximizes an objective that weights the preferences of buyers and sellers. Our assignment method schedules more meetings with higher preferences in less computational time than the previous method used. SATE allows organizers of trade events to control appointment scheduling and investigate various scenarios prior to publishing appointment schedules.