Heuristic

[Marcos]

On 25 jun, 04:00, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
> > On 6/24/2010 9:13 PM, Marcos wrote:
> >> I have a store, so I want to maximize the profit. I have all the
> >> suppliers with diferent prices, some providers can send products to a
> >> client an others not, this has a plus price. Some providers has a
> >> discount over the tansport if a quantity is reached.
>
> >> Sometimes its better to me receive the order and resend to the client
> >> if I have a transport discount.
>
> >> Not all the suppliers has all products for a order.
>
> >> So I want to create a function which I can pass the data, and
> >> generates all the possibilities so I can find the maximum profit.
>
> >> Have I to use heuristics? Do you know some examples?.
>
> > You would not use a heuristic to generate all possibilities. You might
> > use one to *avoid* doing that, and still get a good, not necessarily
> > optimal, answer.
>
> True. Basically there are two ways of approaching the problem. One is to
> try all the combinations, which will guarantee that you'll find the best
> solution, but if there are an enormous number of combinations then that
> could take a very long time. The other way is to use a heuristic to get
> an reasonable solution in an reasonable time. It's a trade-off.
>
>  > Wikipedia has an general entry on 'heuristic'.
>  > Algorithm books often specifically discuss heuristic algorithms.

Do you know it there is some way to generate all the scenario
possibilities?. So I Can put an array an data an generate all. I have
the lack of repeated elements that I cant solve.

Thanks.