Rave II

Course Description

Audience
This course addresses developers with a basic understanding of Rave. Experience from implementing/maintaining a rule set of a pairing or rostering implementation is an advantage.

Prerequisites
Rave I, six months work experience

Duration
2 days

Course goals
The course gives you a deep understanding of the Rave language with emphasis on performance issues. After completing the course you will know more about:

• external tables
• rules
• how to use modules
• how to write cost functions
• constraints
• how caching works
• how to avoid illegal sub-chain problems
• to do performance analysis
• how to use accumulators

Course topics

• Recap of Rave I course
• Tables
• Modules
• Inheritance
• Contexts
• Iterators
• Transforms
• Constraints
• Performance
• Caching
• Costs
• Rules
• Accumulators

All exercises are done using a generic flight data and rule set (Carmen Airlines).