I've been contracted by someone purporting to be associated with
a "department " in the Manchester area, England.
Their project involved writing a simple discrete event simulator (or like)
to calculate how many members of staff would be needed for certain
flows of students on open days.
I have been unable to contact the party for several days now, with
the alleged deadline for the project around 24 hrs off.
If the project (not the scenario ;-) familiar to anyone, please drop me a line.
I've attach the last email I received from the party concerned.
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$ Reply-To: Matt Nord <mattfn@f2s.com >
$ Date: Aug 8, 2005 2:50 AM
$ Subject: Re: Project
$ Kym, This is the exact brief I have:
$
$ On visit days to the department (for potential applicants to the course), it
$ would be advantageous to have sufficient staff on duty to ensure that most
$ of the time (say > 90 per cent), that a visitor does not have to wait to
$ talk to a member of staff. This situation can be simulated using random
$ number generators within GSL.
$
$ If you can make it so that we can manually enter the number of visitors
$ expected each hour and then the program would give the number of staff
$ needed to ensure the 90% not waiting figure. I would use 15 mins as the time
$ allowed to each person and assume the visitors arrive uniformly over each
$ hour.
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a "department " in the Manchester area, England.
Their project involved writing a simple discrete event simulator (or like)
to calculate how many members of staff would be needed for certain
flows of students on open days.
I have been unable to contact the party for several days now, with
the alleged deadline for the project around 24 hrs off.
If the project (not the scenario ;-) familiar to anyone, please drop me a line.
I've attach the last email I received from the party concerned.
===
$ Reply-To: Matt Nord <mattfn@f2s.com >
$ Date: Aug 8, 2005 2:50 AM
$ Subject: Re: Project
$ Kym, This is the exact brief I have:
$
$ On visit days to the department (for potential applicants to the course), it
$ would be advantageous to have sufficient staff on duty to ensure that most
$ of the time (say > 90 per cent), that a visitor does not have to wait to
$ talk to a member of staff. This situation can be simulated using random
$ number generators within GSL.
$
$ If you can make it so that we can manually enter the number of visitors
$ expected each hour and then the program would give the number of staff
$ needed to ensure the 90% not waiting figure. I would use 15 mins as the time
$ allowed to each person and assume the visitors arrive uniformly over each
$ hour.
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