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 be able to:

• use modules
• write cost functions
• understand advanced Rave features
• understand how caching works
• avoid illegal sub-chain problems
• to do performance analysis

Course topics

• Recap of Rave I course
  
  
• Advanced Rave
  • Carmen´s data model - Studio
  • rules
  • tables
  • modules
  • contexts
  • transforms
  • constraints
  • iterators
    
    
• Cost functions
  • cost of trip/roster
  • Roster Initial and generation cost
  • overcover cost
    
    
• Constraints
  • rules
  • qualifications (vertical constraints)
  • global constraints
    
    
• Illegal sub-chains
  • in rostering and pairing
  • work arounds
    
    
• Performance
  • levels
  • range
  • caching
  • performance analysis