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It sounds a bit like the knapsack problem which is sure to give plenty of search hits. The knapsack is about packing various volume articles efficiently into a set of knapsacks. merlyn was looking at a related problem recently (assigning classrooms, teachers and students to maximise the utility to each student). He was doing it with a genetic algorithm. Going supersearcing, back soon...

OK have a look at this thread Looking for help with AI::Genetic and classroom scheduling. Some of the ideas may be applicable to your problem.

Update

After a bit of googling I think I was confusing the knapsack problem with the Bin Packing problem. Another that may be closer to your problem is the Vehicle Routing problem.

Cheers,
R.

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In reply to Re: Efficient Assignment of Many People To Many Locations? by Random_Walk
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