💑 Wedding Drama Optimizer 💑

Welcome to the Wedding Drama Optimizer 👰🤵 repository.
Your task is to optimize seating arrangements for a wedding using metaheuristics.

🔔🖨 Project Overview

In this challenge, you must arrange guests into tables while maximizing the Overall Mood based on the given data. The dataset includes:

1. Affinity scores between guests (who likes/dislikes whom). Range: int([-5,5])
2. Couples & Families (who must sit together or can be separated).
3. Social Network Relations (which social circle the guests belong to, relative to the groom's side).

📂 Data Folder Structure

In the data folder, you will find:

• data/
  • guests_120.csv → Affinity scores for 120 guests
  • couples.csv → Seating constraints
  • families.csv → Seating constraints with kids
  • social_network_120.csv → Social networks between guests (120 guests)

🔑 TASKS

Your task is to maximize the Room Affinity Score (RAS) while also:

1. Reducing the mean intratable affinity variance (MITAV)

   • Reduce large affinity score differences within a table.
   • Encourage balance between high and low-affinity guests.

2. Encouraging social group clusters in tables (SGC)

3. These three scores contribute to the Overall Mood score:

    **Overall Mood Score** = 0.6 × (RAS) + 0.3 × (1/MITAV) + 0.1 × (SGC)
   

📌 REMARKS

• Affinity scores between guests, denoted as Ai,j, represent the degree of liking or disliking between guest i and guest j. The scores generally lie within the range Ai,j ∈ [−5, 5], with the Despicable score being an exceptional value of Ai,j = −15, which represents strong dislike and is valid within the model's context.
• The Affinity scores Ai,j and Aj,i may not be identical (good or bad relationships are not always reciprocal), but the Despicable score is.
• Please be aware that restrictions over Couples & Families separation must be enforced: Couples cannot be separated; Families that are allowed to be separated are properly highlighted.
• The arrangement of your guests must also fit within these table size constraints:
  • 7 seats: 9 tables (max)
  • 8 seats: 9 tables (max)
  • 9 seats: 8 tables (max)

Any combination of this set of tables is allowed. No empty seats are permitted.