Nurse rostering is a complex scheduling problem that affects hospital personnel on a daily
basis all over the world. The need for quality software solutions is acute for a number of …

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 …

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 …

This chapter provides an annotated bibliography of multiple objective combinatorial
optimization, MOCO. We present a general formulation of MOCO problems, describe their …

In recent years the processing speed of computers has increased dramatically. This in turn
has allowed search algorithms to execute more iterations in a given amount of real-time …

In this paper, we investigate variable neighbourhood search (VNS) approaches for the
university examination timetabling problem. In addition to a basic VNS method, we introduce …

The university course timetabling problem is an optimisation problem in which a set of
events has to be scheduled in timeslots and located in suitable rooms. Recently, a set of …

University timetabling problems can be classified into two main categories: course and
examination timetabling. We discuss the problem statements and constraints for each of …

In this paper, we introduce an extension of the classical Resource-Constrained Project
Scheduling Problem: the Multi-skill Project Scheduling Problem. We consider a project …