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I didn't realize that.

The workflow would be interesting. Presumably you have some hard and fast rules and then you try to encode bad/good/better rules. Let the computers churn out options. Maybe iterate with some new rules. The start going through the options manually.

I've worked on conference schedules :-) We don't use computers but it usually goes something like heuristics -> coarse optimization -> hand-tuning.