[HTML][HTML] Educational timetabling: Problems, benchmarks, and state-of-the-art results

S Ceschia, L Di Gaspero, A Schaerf - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a survey of the research contributions on the field of Educational Timetabling
with a specific focus on “standard” formulations and the corresponding benchmark …

A systematic mapping study on solving university timetabling problems using meta-heuristic algorithms

A Bashab, AO Ibrahim, EE AbedElgabar… - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
Since university timetabling is commonly classified as a combinatorial optimisation problem,
researchers tend to use optimisation approaches to reach the optimal timetable solution …

A hybrid algorithm for the university course timetabling problem using the improved parallel genetic algorithm and local search

A Rezaeipanah, SS Matoori, G Ahmadi - Applied Intelligence, 2021 - Springer
Scheduling is one of the problems that has attracted the attention of many researchers over
the years. The University Course Timetabling Problem (UCTP) is a highly constrained real …

A bi-criteria hybrid Genetic Algorithm with robustness objective for the course timetabling problem

C Akkan, A Gülcü - Computers & Operations Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Traditional methods of generating timetables may yield high-quality solutions, but they may
not yield robust solutions that may easily be adapted to changing inputs. Incorporating late …

Feature-based tuning of simulated annealing applied to the curriculum-based course timetabling problem

R Bellio, S Ceschia, L Di Gaspero, A Schaerf… - Computers & Operations …, 2016 - Elsevier
We consider the university course timetabling problem, which is one of the most studied
problems in educational timetabling. In particular, we focus our attention on the formulation …

Performance improvement strategies on Cuckoo Search algorithms for solving the university course timetabling problem

T Thepphakorn, P Pongcharoen - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
The university course timetabling problem (UCTP) arises every academic year and must be
solved by academic staff with/without a course timetabling tool. A Hybrid Self-adaptive …

On the use of multi neighbourhood structures within a Tabu-based memetic approach to university timetabling problems

S Abdullah, H Turabieh - information sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

University course timetabling using hybridized artificial bee colony with hill climbing optimizer

AL Bolaji, AT Khader, MA Al-Betar… - Journal of computational …, 2014 - Elsevier
University course timetabling is concerned with assigning a set of courses to a set of rooms
and timeslots according to a set of constraints. This problem has been tackled using …

Competition-guided multi-neighborhood local search algorithm for the university course timetabling problem

T Song, M Chen, Y Xu, D Wang, X Song, X Tang - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel competition-guided multi-neighborhood local search (CMLS)
algorithm for solving the curriculum-based course timetabling problem. In comparison with …

Modified and hybridised bi-objective firefly algorithms for university course scheduling

T Thepphakorn, P Pongcharoen - Soft Computing, 2023 - Springer
Academic institutions may be edging towards a global uncertainty, recession, and a string of
financial difficulties. An effective course timetabling is one of managerial strategies to …