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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

assignment problem

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables
as-sign-men-t prob-lem
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fundamental combinatorial optimization problem in which a number of agents must be assigned to perform a number of tasks, each incurring some cost specific to that agent-task combination, with the goal of performing as many tasks as possible by assigning at most one agent to each task and at most one task to each agent, and with minimal total cost.

Inflected Forms

assignment problems (plural)

Questions

What does assignment problem mean?
A fundamental combinatorial optimization problem in which a number of agents must be assigned to perform a number of tasks, each incurring some cost specific to that agent-task combination, with the goal of performing as many tasks as possible by assigning at most one agent to each task and at most one task to each agent, and with minimal total cost.

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