A survey of the state-of-the-art of optimisation methodologies in school timetabling problems

JS Tan, SL Goh, G Kendall, NR Sabar - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

A survey of metaheuristic-based techniques for university timetabling problems

R Lewis - OR spectrum, 2008 - Springer
As well as nearly always belonging to the class of NP-complete problems, university
timetabling problems can be further complicated by the often idiosyncratic requirements …

A hybrid network intrusion detection system using simplified swarm optimization (SSO)

YY Chung, N Wahid - Applied soft computing, 2012 - Elsevier
The network intrusion detection techniques are important to prevent our systems and
networks from malicious behaviors. However, traditional network intrusion prevention such …

Efficient solutions for a university timetabling problem through integer programming

S Daskalaki, T Birbas - European journal of operational research, 2005 - Elsevier
Integer programming has always been an alternative for formulating combinatorial problems
such as the university timetabling problem. However, the effort required for modeling …

Local search techniques for constrained portfolio selection problems

A Schaerf - Computational Economics, 2002 - Springer
We consider the problem of selecting a portfolio of assets that provides theinvestor a
suitable balance of expected return and risk. With respect to theseminal mean-variance …

An investigation of a hyperheuristic genetic algorithm applied to a trainer scheduling problem

P Cowling, G Kendall, L Han - Proceedings of the 2002 …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a genetic algorithm based hyperheuristic (hyper-GA) for scheduling
geographically distributed training staff and courses. The aim of the hyper-GA is to evolve a …

EASYLOCAL++: an object‐oriented framework for the flexible design of local‐search algorithms

L Di Gaspero, A Schaerf - Software: Practice and Experience, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Local search is a paradigm for search and optimization problems, which has recently
evidenced to be very effective for a large number of combinatorial problems. Despite the …

Applying evolutionary computation to the school timetabling problem: The Greek case

GN Beligiannis, CN Moschopoulos… - Computers & Operations …, 2008 - Elsevier
In this contribution, an adaptive algorithm based on evolutionary computation techniques is
designed, developed and applied to the timetabling problem of educational organizations …

An introduction to multiobjective metaheuristics for scheduling and timetabling

JDL Silva, EK Burke, S Petrovic - Metaheuristics for multiobjective …, 2004 - Springer
In many real-world scheduling problems (eg. machine scheduling, educational timetabling,
personnel scheduling, etc.) several criteria must be considered simultaneously when …

Improved quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm for large-size lane reservation

A Che, P Wu, F Chu, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies a lane reservation problem for large sport events in big cities. Such
events require organizers to deliver certain people and materials from athlete villages to …