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 …

This paper presents a review pertaining to assignment problem within the education
domain, besides looking into the applications of the present research trend, developments …

The hybrid flowshop scheduling (HFS) problem with the objective of minimising the
makespan has important applications in a variety of industrial systems. This paper presents …

Last train timetable rescheduling aims at coordinating the arrival and departure times of
feeder trains with connecting trains at transfer stations to eliminate the effect of unexpected …

Urban railway transit systems are not only the main source of city trips but also provide
important support for city operations. In this study, we address the last train timetable …

Swarm intelligence is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on the actions of agents
in self-organized systems. Researchers have proposed a bee colony optimization (BCO) …

Finding a good university timetabling system is not a simple task for a higher educational
organisation. As a result, many approaches to generating sufficiently good solutions have …

Unpredictable disruptions arising in railway operations can cause significant inconvenience
for passengers, including missed connections or deviations from their travel plans. To …

The current study investigates the Intelligent Water Drops (IWD) metaheuristic algorithm to
construct and produce good quality solutions for the university examination timetabling …

Since university timetabling is commonly classified as a combinatorial optimisation problem,
researchers tend to use optimisation approaches to reach the optimal timetable solution …