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Comment by clarkmoody

7 hours ago

One of the most frustrating assignments[1] (2011) in my computer science education was trying to build a better mousetrap for elevator control.

[1]: https://clarkmoody.com/Moody_AgentBasedElevatorControl.pdf

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SoftTalker  6 hours ago

Disk drive read/write algorithms have a lot in common with elevator algorithms. At least they did in the days of physical heads moving across a platter.

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