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She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.

Synonyms: job , obligation

He left for his assignment in the Middle East.

• an act of assigning; appointment.
• the transference of a right, interest, or title, or the instrument of transfer.
• a transference of property to assignees for the benefit of creditors.

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• It was a jammy assignment - more of a holiday really.
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• She first visited Norway on assignment for the winter Olympics ten years ago.
• He fell in love with the area after being there on assignment for National Geographic in the 1950s.
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• all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
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• responsibility
• undertaking
• requirement
• designation
• appointment
• authorization
• installment
• installation
• destination
• emplacement
• investiture
• singling (out)

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How does the noun assignment contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of assignment are chore , duty , job , stint , and task . While all these words mean "a piece of work to be done," assignment implies a definite limited task assigned by one in authority.

When is it sensible to use chore instead of assignment ?

While the synonyms chore and assignment are close in meaning, chore implies a minor routine activity necessary for maintaining a household or farm.

When is duty a more appropriate choice than assignment ?

Although the words duty and assignment have much in common, duty implies an obligation to perform or responsibility for performance.

When might job be a better fit than assignment ?

The synonyms job and assignment are sometimes interchangeable, but job applies to a piece of work voluntarily performed; it may sometimes suggest difficulty or importance.

When could stint be used to replace assignment ?

In some situations, the words stint and assignment are roughly equivalent. However, stint implies a carefully allotted or measured quantity of assigned work or service.

When can task be used instead of assignment ?

The meanings of task and assignment largely overlap; however, task implies work imposed by a person in authority or an employer or by circumstance.

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The goal of optimization is to find the best solution to a problem out of a large set of possible solutions. (Sometimes you'll be satisfied with finding any feasible solution; OR-Tools can do that as well.)

Here's a typical optimization problem. Suppose that a shipping company delivers packages to its customers using a fleet of trucks. Every day, the company must assign packages to trucks, and then choose a route for each truck to deliver its packages. Each possible assignment of packages and routes has a cost, based on the total travel distance for the trucks, and possibly other factors as well. The problem is to choose the assignments of packages and routes that has the least cost.

Like all optimization problems, this problem has the following elements:

The objective —the quantity you want to optimize. In the example above, the objective is to minimize cost. To set up an optimization problem, you need to define a function that calculates the value of the objective for any possible solution. This is called the objective function . In the preceding example, the objective function would calculate the total cost of any assignment of packages and routes.

An optimal solution is one for which the value of the objective function is the best. ("Best" can be either a maximum or a minimum.)

The constraints —restrictions on the set of possible solutions, based on the specific requirements of the problem. For example, if the shipping company can't assign packages above a given weight to trucks, this would impose a constraint on the solutions.

A feasible solution is one that satisfies all the given constraints for the problem, without necessarily being optimal.

The first step in solving an optimization problem is identifying the objective and constraints.

Next, we give an example of an optimization problem, and show how to set up and solve it in Python.

A linear optimization example

One of the oldest and most widely-used areas of optimization is linear optimization (or linear programming ), in which the objective function and the constraints can be written as linear expressions. Here's a simple example of this type of problem.

Maximize 3x + y subject to the following constraints:

• 0 ≤ x ≤ 1
• 0 ≤ y ≤ 2
• x + y ≤ 2

The objective function in this example is 3x + y . Both the objective function and the constraints are given by linear expressions, which makes this a linear problem.

Main steps in solving the problem

For each language, the basic steps for setting up and solving a problem are the same:

• Import the required libraries,
• Declare the solver,
• Create the variables,
• Define the constraints,
• Define the objective function,
• Invoke the solver and
• Display the results.

Python program

This section walks through a Python program that sets up and solves the problem.

Here are the steps:

• Import the required libraries. from ortools.linear_solver import pywraplp
• Declare the solver. # Create the linear solver with the GLOP backend. solver = pywraplp.Solver.CreateSolver("GLOP") if not solver: return pywraplp is a Python wrapper for the underlying C++ solver. The argument "GLOP" specifies GLOP , the OR-Tools linear solver.
• Create the variables. # Create the variables x and y. x = solver.NumVar(0, 1, "x") y = solver.NumVar(0, 2, "y") print("Number of variables =", solver.NumVariables())
• Define the constraints. The first two constraints, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 and 0 ≤ y ≤ 2 , are already set by the definitions of the variables. The following code defines the constraint x + y ≤ 2 : # Create a linear constraint, 0 <= x + y <= 2. ct = solver.Constraint(0, 2, "ct") ct.SetCoefficient(x, 1) ct.SetCoefficient(y, 1) print("Number of constraints =", solver.NumConstraints()) The method SetCoefficient sets the coefficients of x and y in the expression for the constraint.
• Define the objective function. # Create the objective function, 3 * x + y. objective = solver.Objective() objective.SetCoefficient(x, 3) objective.SetCoefficient(y, 1) objective.SetMaximization() The method SetMaximization declares this to be a maximization problem.
• Invoke the solver and display the results. print(f"Solving with {solver.SolverVersion()}") solver.Solve() print("Solution:") print("Objective value =", objective.Value()) print("x =", x.solution_value()) print("y =", y.solution_value())

Complete program

The complete program is shown below.

Running the program

You can run the program above as follows:

• Copy and paste the code above into new file and save it as program.py .
• Open a command window and change to the directory where you saved program.py . At the command prompt, enter: python relative/path/to/ program.py where relative/path/to/ is the path to the directory where you saved the program.

The program returns the values of x and y that maximize the objective function:

For more Python examples that illustrate how to solve various types of optimization problems, see Examples .

There are many different types of optimization problems in the world. For each type of problem, there are different approaches and algorithms for finding an optimal solution.

Before you can start writing a program to solve an optimization problem, you need to identify what type of problem you are dealing with, and then choose an appropriate solver — an algorithm for finding an optimal solution.

Below you will find a brief overview of the types of problems that OR-Tools solves, and links to the sections in this guide that explain how to solve each problem type.

Linear optimization

Constraint optimization, mixed-integer optimization, network flows.

As you learned in the previous section , a linear optimization problem is one in which the objective function and the constraints are linear expressions in the variables.

The primary solver in OR-Tools for this type of problem is the linear optimization solver, which is actually a wrapper for several different libraries for linear and mixed-integer optimization , including third-party libraries.

Learn more about linear optimization

A mixed integer optimization problem is one in which some or all of the variables are required to be integers. An example is the assignment problem , in which a group of workers needs be assigned to a set of tasks. For each worker and task, you define a variable whose value is 1 if the given worker is assigned to the given task, and 0 otherwise. In this case, the variables can only take on the values 0 or 1.

Learn more about mixed-integer optimization

Constraint optimization, or constraint programming (CP), identifies feasible solutions out of a very large set of candidates, where the problem can be modeled in terms of arbitrary constraints. CP is based on feasibility (finding a feasible solution) rather than optimization (finding an optimal solution) and focuses on the constraints and variables rather than the objective function. However, CP can be used to solve optimization problems, simply by comparing the values of the objective function for all feasible solutions.

Learn more about constraint optimization

Assignment problems involve assigning a group of agents (say, workers or machines) to a set of tasks, where there is a fixed cost for assigning each agent to a specific task. The problem is to find the assignment with the least total cost. Assignment problems are actually a special case of network flow problems .

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Bin packing is the problem of packing a set of objects of different sizes into containers with different capacities. The goal is to pack as many of the objects as possible, subject to the capacities of the containers. A special case of this is the Knapsack problem , in which there is just one container.

Learn more about bin packing

Scheduling problems involve assigning resources to perform a set of tasks at specific times. An important example is the job shop problem , in which multiple jobs are processed on several machines. Each job consists of a sequence of tasks, which must be performed in a given order, and each task must be processed on a specific machine. The problem is to assign a schedule so that all jobs are completed in as short an interval of time as possible.

Learn more about scheduling

Routing problems involve finding the optimal routes for a fleet of vehicles to traverse a network, defined by a directed graph. The problem of assigning packages to delivery trucks, described in What is an optimization problem ? , is one example of a routing problem. Another is the traveling salesperson problem .

Learn more about routing

Many optimization problems can be represented by a directed graph consisting of nodes and directed arcs between them. For example, transportation problems, in which goods are shipped across a railway network, can be represented by a graph in which the arcs are rail lines and the nodes are distribution centers.

In the maximum flow problem , each arc has a maximum capacity that can be transported across it. The problem is to assign the amount of goods to be shipped across each arc so that the total quantity being transported is as large as possible.

Learn more about network flows

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• From the menu, select a grading period.

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You can change the point value of an assignment or make the assignment ungraded. By default, assignments are set at 100 points.

• Under Points , click the value.
• Enter a new point value or select Ungraded .

By default, an assignment has no due date. To set a due date:

• Click a date on the calendar.
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• Click a topic in the list to select it.

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Learn more about how to add topics to the Classwork page .

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• To add YouTube videos, an admin must turn on this option. Learn about access settings for your Google Workspace for Education account .
• You can add interactive questions to YouTube video attachments. Learn how to add interactive questions to YouTube video attachments .

• Tip: When you attach a practice set to an assignment, you can't edit it.

• If you see a message that you don’t have permission to attach a file, click Copy . Classroom makes a copy of the file to attach to the assignment and saves it to the class Drive folder.
• Students can view file —All students can read the file, but not edit it.
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You can post an assignment immediately, or schedule it to post later. If you don’t want to post it yet, you can save it as a draft. To see scheduled and drafted assignments, click Classwork .

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• Follow the steps above to create an assignment.
• Click Assign to immediately post the assignment.

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• To schedule the same assignment across multiple classes, make sure to select all classes you want to include.
• When you enter a time, Classroom defaults to PM unless you specify AM.
• (Optional) Select a due date and topic for each class.
• (Optional) To replicate your selected time and date for the first class into all subsequent classes, click Copy settings to all .
• Click Schedule . The assignment will automatically post at the scheduled date and time.

After scheduling multiple assignments at once, you can still edit assignments later by clicking into each class and changing them individually.

Save an assignment as a draft

• Follow the steps above to create an assignment

You can open and edit draft assignments on the Classwork page.

Manage assignments

Edits affect individual classes. For multi-class assignments, make edits in each class.

Note : If you change an assignment's name, the assignment's Drive folder name isn't updated. Go to Drive and rename the folder.

Edit a posted assignment

• Enter your changes and click Save .

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• Enter your changes and click Schedule .

Edit a draft assignment

Changes are automatically saved.

• Assign it immediately (details above).
• Schedule it to post at a specific date and time (details above).
• Click a class.

You can only delete an assignment on the Classwork page.

If you delete an assignment, all grades and comments related to the assignment are deleted. However, any attachments or files created by you or the students are still available in Drive.

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