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A graph-based hyper-heuristic for educational timetabling problems

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A graph-based hyper-heuristic for educational timetabling problems
This paper presents an investigation of a simple generic hyper-heuristic approach upon a set of widely used constructive heuristics (graph coloring heuristics) in timetabling. Within the hyper-heuristic framework, a tabu search approach is employed to search for permutations of graph heuristics which are used for constructing timetables in exam and course timetabling problems. This underpins a multi-stage hyper-heuristic where the tabu search employs permutations upon a different number of graph heuristics in two stages. We study this graph-based hyper-heuristic approach within the context of exploring fundamental issues concerning the search space of the hyper-heuristic (the heuristic space) and the solution space. Such issues have not been addressed in other hyper-heuristic research. These approaches are tested on both exam and course benchmark timetabling problems and are compared with the fine-tuned bespoke state-of-theart approaches. The results are within the range of the best...
Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum, Amnon Meisels, Sa
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where EOR
Authors Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum, Amnon Meisels, Sanja Petrovic, Rong Qu
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