Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the
discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include …

Abstract In 2007, the Second International Timetabling Competition (ITC-2007) has been
organized and a formal definition of the Curriculum-Based Course Timetabling (CB-CTT) …

Graph Theory and Its Applications, Third Edition is the latest edition of the international,
bestselling textbook for undergraduate courses in graph theory, yet it is expansive enough to …

Abstract League Championship Algorithm (LCA) is a recently proposed stochastic
population based algorithm for continuous global optimization which tries to mimic a …

This paper presents an investigation of a simple generic hyper-heuristic approach upon a
set of widely used constructive heuristics (graph coloring heuristics) in timetabling. Within …

Examination timetabling is one of the most important administrative activities that takes place
in all academic institutions. In this paper, we present a critical discussion of the research on …

The league championship algorithm (LCA) is a new algorithm originally proposed for
unconstrained optimization which tries to metaphorically model a League championship …

This paper presents a case-based heuristic selection approach for automated university
course and exam timetabling. The method described in this paper is motivated by the goal of …

One of the main challenges for university administration is building a timetable for course
sessions. This is not just about building a timetable that works, but building one that is as …

Although there has been a fair amount of research in the area of school timetabling, this
domain has not developed as well as other fields of educational timetabling such as …