So You Think You Can Program an Elevator

Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by platz on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @05:53PM (#10891041)

Also, there might be more than one criteria to optimize for.. shortest travel time? fewest moves?

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Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by rodgerd on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:06PM (#10892261)

> Also, there might be more than one criteria to optimize for.. shortest travel time? fewest moves?

More fundamentally: do you optimise for the users of the service (lift passengers) or for the person paying for it (building owner)? Because I can imagine very different drivers there.

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Re:So You Think You Can Program an Elevator by smaddox on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:14PM (#10891157)

Indeed. This seems like a good use case for a cost/utility function. Very long wait times should be very high cost, while short wait times should be disproportionately low cost, etc.

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