An exhibition that cannot be completed with endorsed items

The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

1. Option 1

   Set item priorities and resolve conflicts

   First set the order of preferences to be kept, concede only the conflicting items, and then run the feasibility check. It is easy to track each support reason, but a reason placed last can be pushed aside before the comparison of completed plans.

2. Option 2

   Compare feasible complete programs

   Compare whole programs that have passed the mandatory constraints within the same review time. It allows judgment of the visiting experience as a whole, but item combinations that were not included as candidates drop out of the review.

3. Option 3

   Select a bundle of items to renegotiate

   Set a bundle of items to change together under the mandatory constraints, renegotiate it, and inspect the final plan. It allows coordination of the reasons each side concedes, but the longer the negotiation runs, the less time remains to test the new composition.

The situation as it stands

If the method is not set, preparation orders will be late, and some of the programs currently available will drop out of the running because there is not enough production time.

A shared exhibition space operated by Ieum Joint Exhibition, a fictional nonprofit organization

1. Premise 1Synthetic premise: the available time in a single session is 50 minutes, and a 20-minute long explanation, 20 minutes of free viewing, and 15 minutes of full reallocation, which cannot overlap, were each supported. Putting all three in takes 55 minutes, which exceeds the limit, but choosing any two items takes 40 minutes or less. There are many feasible overall plans that reduce some items or group them differently.
2. Premise 2Synthetic premise: the participants, the committee's voting rights, the total budget, and the mandatory visiting and preparation times are already fixed. In the remaining curation period there is no capacity to both rebuild every candidate from scratch and compare every completed plan in detail.
3. Premise 3Synthetic premise: the interpretation team wants to keep the connections between explanations, the visitor support team wants time to look around on its own, and the installation team wants to keep the separation between works. Each team's demands are feasible separately but cannot all be maximized together, and changing the composition after an order carries rework costs.

Where it holdsConfirm one method for composing the next exhibition while keeping the already-fixed committee, voting rights, and mandatory constraints.

What can be lost

• The interpretation team loses its reason to keep the connections between explanations intact while items are adjusted, and may have to rewrite what it has prepared.
• The visitor support team and visitors may lose the freedom to linger, which costs efficiency for the overall composition.
• The installation team may lose preparation time because of late bundle changes, or may have to rework installations it has already built.

What is still unknown

1. Unknown 1Which reasons the committee members will concede when they compare the per-item support reasons against the overall visiting experience has not yet emerged.
2. Unknown 2It has not been verified whether combinations outside the current completed-plan candidates satisfy more of the major preferences at once.
3. Unknown 3How far a change to one item in renegotiation will cascade into a re-examination of other items cannot be known.

Signals to decide again

• The preparation lead checks on every candidate revision whether the feasibility review finds time or budget overruns, and if there are overruns the method is reconsidered.
• The meeting minutes keeper checks after every meeting whether the same item's reason keeps getting rejected, and if it recurs under a new combination it is reconsidered.
• The ordering officer checks daily before placing an order whether the rework time needed for a method change exceeds the remaining preparation time, and reconsider before it does.