Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the
discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include …

Educational timetabling problems, namely, university examination timetabling, university
course timetabling and school timetabling, are combinatorial optimization problems …

Hyper-heuristics is a fairly recent technique that aims at effectively solving various real-world
optimization problems. This is the first book on hyper-heuristics, and aims to bring together …

In this article, a new metaheuristic algorithm called Siberian Tiger Optimization (STO) is
designed to deal with optimization applications. The fundamental inspiration of STO is the …

Although there has been a fair amount of research in the area of school timetabling, this
domain has not developed as well as other fields of educational timetabling such as …

Hyper-heuristics can be identified as methodologies that search the space generated by a
finite set of low level heuristics for solving search problems. An iterative hyper-heuristic …

In recent research, hyper-heuristics have attracted increasing attention in various fields. The
most appealing feature of hyper-heuristics is that they aim to provide more generalized …

In this work we investigate a new graph coloring constructive hyper-heuristic for solving
examination timetabling problems. We utilize the hierarchical hybridizations of four low level …

Designing generic problem solvers that perform well across a diverse set of problems is a
challenging task. In this work, we propose a hyper-heuristic framework to automatically …

This paper proposed a novel approach for a practical version of the cold chain, namely
location-routing problem-based low-carbon cold chain (LRPLCCC). In the proposed bi …