Adds the (batch-based) Teaching Assistant (TA) assignment problem description

[maxkratz]

Initial (batch-based) Teaching Assistant (TA) assignment problem, created during the STSM "Towards Deriving Incremental Optimization Problems from Batch Specifications of ROAs".

[liuq]

First of all, thank you very much for your submissions. From a preliminary scrutiny, it seems that the two problems share a lot of features and differ on the type of constraints / objectives. Would it be possible (and meaningful) to create a generalized version of the two, which in turn will be specialized into the two specific subproblems?

[maxkratz]

First of all, thank you very much for your submissions. From a preliminary scrutiny, it seems that the two problems share a lot of features and differ on the type of constraints / objectives. Would it be possible (and meaningful) to create a generalized version of the two, which in turn will be specialized into the two specific subproblems?

First, I want to apologize for the delay.

In my opinion, it could only make sense to make the incremental problem a specialized version of the batch case, if at all.
However, the two problems try to solve a different cases:

• batch creates an initial assignment
• incremental tries to repair a "broken" assignment

I agree that both share a lot of features, but from a logical point of view, I am not sure how both can be combined. What could make sense would be to extract, e.g., the helper functions and some of the data structures that are used in both implementations. Do you have a guideline on how to structure the project(s) in that case?