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Re:Airlines Face Acute Shortage of Pilots by olego on Monday November 12, 2012 @02:43AM (#4771964)
Would you, by any chance, share any links regarding "proper software would simulate thousands of scenarios"? Genuinely interested, how are these kinds of problems solved in real life.
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Re:Airlines Face Acute Shortage of Pilots by Daniel_Newby on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @12:18AM (#4776549)
I was thinking of automated trial and error using a simulator. Try a bunch of variations in the simulator and pick the one with the best simulated results.

Approaches like that are common for playing board games like chess, for finding clever transfer orbits for spacecraft, etc.

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