Generalized assignment problem

Okay kiddo, let me tell you about something called the generalized assignment problem.

Imagine you have a bunch of toys to give to your friends. You want to make sure each friend gets one toy, but you can't just give them any toy. You have to think about which toy each friend will like the most.

The generalized assignment problem is kind of like this. Except instead of toys and friends, we have a bunch of tasks and workers. And instead of "liking" a toy, each worker has a certain skill level that makes them good at certain tasks.

So, the goal is to assign each task to a worker, but we want to make sure that the worker we choose is good at that task. We also want to make sure that each worker only gets assigned one task, just like how we wanted each friend to only get one toy.

The tricky part is that some workers might be better at more than one task, and some tasks might be able to be done by multiple workers. We have to figure out the best way to assign the tasks to the workers so that everyone is happy and everything gets done efficiently.

Does that make sense, kiddo?