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EOR
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
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. Wit...
Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum, Amnon Meisels, Sa...
HAIS
2009
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Evolutionary Non-linear Great Deluge for University Course Timetabling
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...
Dario Landa Silva, Joe Henry Obit
ENDM
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Timetabling problems at the TU Eindhoven
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. ...
PATAT
1997
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Annealing Techniques for Academic Course Scheduling
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...
COR
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Decomposition, reformulation, and diving in university course timetabling
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, ...