Educational timetabling is an ongoing challenging administrative task that is required in
most academic institutions. This is mainly due to a large number of constraints and …

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 …

We propose a survey of the research contributions on the field of Educational Timetabling
with a specific focus on “standard” formulations and the corresponding benchmark …

Scheduling is one of the problems that has attracted the attention of many researchers over
the years. The University Course Timetabling Problem (UCTP) is a highly constrained real …

Traditional methods of generating timetables may yield high-quality solutions, but they may
not yield robust solutions that may easily be adapted to changing inputs. Incorporating late …

The study of differences between timetabling research presented in conferences like PATAT
or published in Annals of OR and commercial timetabling software used in Higher Education …

This article presents a mixed-integer programming model for solving the university
timetabling problem which considers the allocation of students to classes and the …

Problem definition: Physical distancing requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic have
dramatically reduced the effective capacity of university campuses. Under these conditions …

University course timetables are often finalized in stages, in between which, changes in the
data make the earlier version infeasible. As each version is announced to the community, it …

University course timetabling belongs to classical problems which have been studied for
many years by many researchers. This paper will outline existing research and emphasize …