A survey of university course timetabling problem: perspectives, trends and opportunities

MC Chen, SL Goh, NR Sabar, G Kendall - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The timetabling problem is common to academic institutions such as schools, colleges or
universities. It is a very hard combinatorial optimisation problem which attracts the interest of …

An overview of curriculum-based course timetabling

A Bettinelli, V Cacchiani, R Roberti, P Toth - Top, 2015 - Springer
Abstract In 2007, the Second International Timetabling Competition (ITC-2007) has been
organized and a formal definition of the Curriculum-Based Course Timetabling (CB-CTT) …

A fast simulated annealing algorithm for the examination timetabling problem

N Leite, F Melício, AC Rosa - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The timetabling problem involves the scheduling of a set of entities (eg, lectures, exams,
vehicles, or people) to a set of resources in a limited number of time slots, while satisfying a …

Solving the high school timetabling problem using a hybrid cat swarm optimization based algorithm

VI Skoullis, IX Tassopoulos, GN Beligiannis - Applied Soft Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
In this contribution we present the application of a hybrid cat swarm optimization (CSO)
based algorithm for solving the school timetabling problem. This easy to use, efficient and …

A strategic view of University timetabling

M Lindahl, AJ Mason, T Stidsen, M Sørensen - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
University timetabling has traditionally been studied as an operational problem where the
goal is to assign lectures to rooms and timeslots and create timetables of high quality for …

Integer programming for the generalized high school timetabling problem

S Kristiansen, M Sørensen, TR Stidsen - Journal of Scheduling, 2015 - Springer
Recently, the XHSTT format for high school timetabling was introduced. It provides a uniform
way of modeling problem instances and corresponding solutions. The format supports a …

A cellular memetic algorithm for the examination timetabling problem

N Leite, CM Fernandes, F Melicio, AC Rosa - Computers & Operations …, 2018 - Elsevier
The timetabling problem involves the scheduling of a set of entities (eg, lectures, exams,
vehicles, or people) to a given set of resources in a limited number of time slots, while …

The multiphase course timetabling problem

R Esmaeilbeigi, V Mak-Hau, J Yearwood… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the multiphase course timetabling problem and presents
mathematical formulations and effective solution algorithms to solve it in a real case study …

Adaptive large neighborhood search for the curriculum-based course timetabling problem

A Kiefer, RF Hartl, A Schnell - Annals of Operations Research, 2017 - Springer
In curriculum-based course timetabling, lectures have to be assigned to periods and rooms,
while avoiding overlaps between courses of the same curriculum. Taking into account the …

A systematic mapping study on solving university timetabling problems using meta-heuristic algorithms

A Bashab, AO Ibrahim, EE AbedElgabar… - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
Since university timetabling is commonly classified as a combinatorial optimisation problem,
researchers tend to use optimisation approaches to reach the optimal timetable solution …