A Survey of solution methodologies for exam timetabling problems

ESK Siew, SL Goh, G Kendall, NR Sabar… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exam timetabling is a prominent topic in academic administration management as it ensures
the effective utilization of resources and satisfies the requirements and preferences of …

A column generation approach for solving the examination-timetabling problem

G Woumans, L De Boeck, J Beliën… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we approach the Examination-Timetabling Problem (ETP) from a student-
centric point of view. We allow for multiple versions of an exam to be scheduled to increase …

A web-based decision support system for examination timetabling

MG Güler, E Geçici, T Köroğlu, E Becit - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
We study exam timetabling problem (ETP) and supervisor assignment problem (SAP) of a
vocational school offering associate level degrees in a university. The school has seven …

A spreadsheet-based decision support system for examination timetabling

MG Güler, E Gecici - Turkish Journal Of Electrical …, 2020 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
Examination timetabling is an inevitable problem of educational institutions. Each institution
has its own particular limitations; however, the main structure is the same: assigning exams …

A practical threephase ILP approach for solving the examination timetabling problem

F AlHawari, M AlAshi, F Abawi… - International …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A practical mathematical programming based approach is introduced for solving the
examination timetabling problem at the German Jordanian University (GJU), whereby the …

Lower bounds and compact mathematical formulations for spacing soft constraints for university examination timetabling problems

T Arbaoui, JP Boufflet, A Moukrim - Computers & Operations Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The examination timetabling problem (ETT) can be described as a set of exams to be
scheduled over an examination session while respecting numerous hard and soft …

A two-phase constraint programming model for examination timetabling at university college cork

B Genc, B O'Sullivan - Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming …, 2020 - Springer
Examination timetabling is a widely studied NP-hard problem. An additional challenge to the
complexity of the problem are many real-world requirements that can often prevent the …

Exact and metaheuristic methods for a real-world examination timetabling problem

M Carlsson, S Ceschia, L Di Gaspero… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
We propose a portfolio of exact and metaheuristic methods for the rich examination
timetabling problem introduced by Battistutta et al.(in: Hebrard, Musliu (eds) 17th …

The student scheduling problem at Université de Technologie de Compiègne

JP Boufflet, T Arbaoui, A Moukrim - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract At Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), complete course timetables are
made available to students for the forthcoming semester, then students select their courses …

A matheuristic for exam timetabling

T Arbaoui, JP Boufflet, A Moukrim - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2016 - Elsevier
Exam timetabling is a tedious task faced in universities. We present a matheuristic to solve
the exam timetabling problem related to the Toronto benchmark. We propose first a non …