The study of differences between timetabling research presented in conferences like PATAT
or published in Annals of OR and commercial timetabling software used in Higher Education …

Graph colouring is one of those rare examples in the mathematical sciences of a problem
that, while easy to state and visualise, has many aspects that are exceptionally difficult to …

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 …

As well as nearly always belonging to the class of NP-complete problems, university
timetabling problems can be further complicated by the often idiosyncratic requirements …

The study of the relationship and interaction between the work carried out in the academic
literature and the requirements of university administrators is essential if ideas generated by …

In this paper we introduce an examination timetabling problem from the MARA University of
Technology (UiTM). UiTM is the largest university in Malaysia. It has 13 branch campuses …

In this paper, we address the issue of ordering exams by simultaneously considering two
separate heuristics using fuzzy methods. Combinations of two of the following three heuristic …

As an academic in the School of Computer Science at Queen's University, a visiting
researcher to the Automated Scheduling, Opimisation and Planning (ASAP) group within the …

Since the 1960s, automated approaches to examination timetabling have been explored
and a wide variety of approaches have been investigated and developed. In this paper we …

A hyperheuristic is a high level problem solving methodology that performs a search over
the space generated by a set of low level heuristics. One of the hyperheuristic frameworks is …