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. Wit...
Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum, Amnon Meisels, Sa...
This paper presents a hybrid evolutionary algorithm to tackle university course timetabling problems. The proposed approach is an extension of a non-linear great deluge algorithm i...
The students of the Industrial Design department at the TU Eindhoven are allowed to design part of their curriculum by selecting courses from a huge course pool. They do this by ha...
John van den Broek, Cor A. J. Hurkens, Gerhard J. ...
In this study we have tackled the NP-hard problem of academic class scheduling (or timetabling) at the university level. We have investigated a variety of approaches based on simu...
M. A. Saleh Elmohamed, Paul D. Coddington, Geoffre...
In many real-life optimisation problems, there are multiple interacting components in a solution. For example, different components might specify assignments to different kinds of...
Edmund K. Burke, Jakub Marecek, Andrew J. Parkes, ...