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SIGCSE
1995
ACM
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Requirements for a first year object-oriented teaching language
Interest in teaching object-oriented programming in first year computer science courses has increased substantially over the last few years. While the theoretical advantages are c...
Michael Kölling, Bett Koch, John Rosenberg
SIGCSE
1995
ACM
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AAA and CS 1: the applied apprenticeship approach to CS 1
Owen L. Astrachan, David Reed
SIGCSE
1995
ACM
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A visual simulator for a simple machine and assembly language
We present a package which provides a visually oriented simulation of the execution of machine and assembly language programs on a simple computer. The programs am written for Hyp...
B. Lewis Barnett III
PATAT
1995
Springer
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The Complexity of Timetable Construction Problems
Tim B. Cooper, Jeffrey H. Kingston
PATAT
1995
Springer
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A Memetic Algorithm for University Exam Timetabling
The scheduling of exams in institutions of higher education is known to be a highly constrained problem. The advent of modularity in many institutions in the UK has resulted in a s...
Edmund K. Burke, James P. Newall, Rupert F. Weare
PATAT
1995
Springer
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Examination Timetabling in British Universities: A Survey
This paper describes the results of a questionnaire on examination timetabling sent to the registrars of ninety five British Universities. The survey asked questions in three spe...
Edmund K. Burke, Dave Elliman, Peter H. Ford, Rupe...
PATAT
2000
Springer
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Tabu Search Techniques for Examination Timetabling
Abstract The Examination Timetabling problem regards the scheduling for the exams of a set of university courses, avoiding the overlapping of exams having students in common, fairl...
Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Schaerf
PATAT
2000
Springer
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A Hyperheuristic Approach to Scheduling a Sales Summit
The concept of a hyperheuristic is introduced as an approach rates at a higher lever of abstraction than current metaheuristic approaches. The hyperheuristic manages the choice of ...
Peter I. Cowling, Graham Kendall, Eric Soubeiga
PATAT
2000
Springer
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Examination Timetables and Tabu Search with Longer-Term Memory
The examination scheduling problem has been examined and a four-phase system using a tabu search algorithm, OTTABU, has been implemented. This system uses both recency-based short-...
George M. White, Bill S. Xie