[HTML][HTML] Meta-heuristic approaches for the university course timetabling problem

S Abdipoor, R Yaakob, SL Goh, S Abdullah - Intelligent Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Course timetabling is an ongoing challenge that universities face all around the world. This
combinatorial optimization task involves allocating a set of events into finite time slots and …

Simulated annealing with penalization for university course timetabling

K Sylejmani, E Gashi, A Ymeri - Journal of Scheduling, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we present our solver for the new variant of the University Timetabling
Problem, which was introduced in the framework of Fourth International Timetabling …

Towards improving the utilization of university teaching space

C Beyrouthy, EK Burke, D Landa-Silva… - Journal of the …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
There is a perception that teaching space in universities is a rather scarce resource.
However, some studies have revealed that in many institutions it is actually chronically …

A clique-based algorithm for constructing feasible timetables

Y Liu, D Zhang, FYL Chin - Optimization Methods & Software, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Constructing a feasible solution, where the focus is on 'hard'constraints only, is an important
part of solving timetabling problems. For the University Course Timetabling Problem, we …

An efficient simulated annealing algorithm for feasible solutions of course timetabling

J Frausto-Solis, F Alonso-Pecina… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Course Timetabling Problem (CTP) is a well known NP hard problem. Many
classical randomized algorithms (as Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing and Tabu …

[PDF][PDF] Optimizing Faculty Workloads and Room Utilization using Heuristically Enhanced WOA

LD Austero, RP Medina, AM Sison… - International Journal of …, 2022 - academia.edu
The creation and generation of schedules that are free of conflicts manually every academic
semester present higher education institutions with a duty that is laborious and demanding …

[PDF][PDF] Intelligent Systems with Applications

S Abdipoor, R Yaakob, SL Goh, S Abdullah - researchgate.net
Course timetabling is an ongoing challenge that universities face all around the world. This
combinatorial optimization task involves allocating a set of events into finite time slots and …

Construction of initial neighborhoods for a course scheduling problem using tiling

D Moody, A Bar-Noy, G Kendall - 2007 IEEE Symposium on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A recent competition course scheduling competition saw many solution approaches which
constructed an initial solution, and then improved that solution using local search. The initial …

Application of Mixed Integer Programming Methods for Practical Educational Timetabling

RØ Mikkelsen - 2021 - orbit.dtu.dk
Educational institutions such as high schools and universities face many challenging
timetabling problems. Timetables are essential for ensuring that students and instructors can …

[PDF][PDF] Analytically tuned parameters of simulated annealing for the timetabling problem

J Frausto-Solís, F Alonso-Pecina… - … Puerto De La Cruz …, 2007 - academia.edu
University Timetabling problem (UTT) has a computational complexity that grows
exponentially as the size of the problem augments; therefore random algorithms become the …