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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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-...