Вот рекурсивный алгоритм в Javascript. Эта функция возвращает итоги, которые будут назначены каждому работнику. Допустим, входной массив bookLoads - это массив положительных чисел, которые вы хотите как можно более справедливо разделить на k-части (скажем, среди k работников)
Вот рабочая скрипка:
https://jsfiddle.net/missyalyssi/jhtk8vnc/3/
function fairWork(bookLoads, numWorkers = 0) {
// recursive version
// utilities
var bestDifference = Infinity;
var bestPartition = {};
var initLoads = {};
var workers = Array.from({length: numWorkers}, (val, idx) => {
initLoads[idx] = 0;
return idx;
});
var bookTotal = bookLoads.reduce((acc, curr) => {return acc + curr}, 0);
var average = bookTotal / bookLoads.length;
// recursive function
function partition(books = bookLoads, workers, loads={}) {
// if only one worker give them all the books
if (workers.length == 1 && books.length > 0) {
var onlyWorker = workers[0];
loads[onlyWorker] += books.reduce((acum, curr, idx, arr) => {
return acum + curr;
},0);
books = [];
}
// base case
if (books.length == 0) {
var keys = Object.keys(loads);
var total = 0;
for (let key = 0; key < keys.length; key++) {
// square so that difference shows
total += Math.pow(Math.abs(average - loads[keys[key]]), 2);
}
if (total < bestDifference) {
bestDifference = total;
bestPartition= loads;
}
return bestPartition;
}
var currBookLoad = books[0];
// add book to curr worker 1
var newWorker1Loads = Object.assign({}, loads);
var worker1 = workers[0];
newWorker1Loads[worker1] = newWorker1Loads[worker1] + currBookLoad || currBookLoad;
partition(books.slice(1), workers, newWorker1Loads)
// give to next worker
var newNextWorkerLoads = Object.assign({}, loads);
var worker2 = workers[1];
newNextWorkerLoads[worker2] = newNextWorkerLoads[worker2] + currBookLoad || currBookLoad;
partition(books.slice(1), workers.slice(1), newNextWorkerLoads)
return bestPartition;
}
// function call
return partition(bookLoads, workers, initLoads)
}
fairWork([3,1,2,3], 3)
//Result will be: Object {0: 3, 1: 3, 2: 3}
fairWork([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], 3)
//Result will be: Object {0: 15, 1: 13, 2: 17}