The application helps residents of the San Francisco Bay Area pick a US city for a weekend trip (from Friday evening to Sunday evening). The user provides as input:
- an upper limit for the airfare (e.g. $500)
as well as the importance, on a scale from 0 to 10, of several factors including:
- weather
- restaurants and bars
- safety
- city size (population)
The output of the application is the top 10 US cities according to the user's input.
Here is a sample input for the application:
| Parameter | Value (selected by the user) |
|---|---|
| airfare | $700 |
| weather | 4/10 |
| bars | 7/10 |
| safety | 9/10 |
| city size | 1/10 |
and the corresponding output file for this input:
| Best match | San Diego, CA |
|---|---|
| Airfare | $496.20 |
| Temperature | 68 - 75 F |
| Weather forecast | Partly Cloudy |