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The assignment problem

The assignment problem deals with assigning machines to tasks, workers to jobs, soccer players to positions, and so on. The goal is to determine the optimum assignment that, for example, minimizes the total cost or maximizes the team effectiveness.

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The Hungarian algorithm

The Hungarian algorithm is an easy to understand and easy to use algorithm that solves the assignment problem.

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