/**
* A method that spawns an ILDS object and calls its solve method. If other algorithms were used,
* this would be a good place to call their solve methods.
*/
public void solve() {
/* Create a depth first search instance */
ILDS dfs = new ILDS(students, fileIO.getGroupTimes());
if (timeout != 0) {
Thread thread =
new Thread() {
public void run() {
Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.schedule(
new TimerTask() {
@Override
public void run() {
dfs.end();
}
},
timeout);
}
};
thread.start();
}
/* Solve and print the solution */
dfs.solve();
solutionCost = dfs.getSolutionCost();
printStudentSolution(dfs.getSolution());
}
