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 …

Meta-analysis of metaheuristics: Quantifying the effect of adaptiveness in adaptive large neighborhood search

R Turkeš, K Sörensen, LM Hvattum - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on metaheuristics has focused on (novel) algorithmic development and on
competitive testing, both of which have been frequently argued to yield little generalizable …

The third international timetabling competition

G Post, L Di Gaspero, JH Kingston, B McCollum… - Annals of Operations …, 2016 - Springer
This paper is the organizers' report on the Third International Timetabling Competition
(ITC2011), run during 2011–2012 with the aim of raising the profile of automated high …

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 …

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 …

Solving high school timetabling problems worldwide using selection hyper-heuristics

LN Ahmed, E Özcan, A Kheiri - Expert Systems with Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
High school timetabling is one of those recurring NP-hard real-world combinatorial
optimisation problems that has to be dealt with by many educational institutions periodically …

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 hidden markov model approach to the problem of heuristic selection in hyper-heuristics with a case study in high school timetabling problems

A Kheiri, E Keedwell - Evolutionary computation, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Operations research is a well-established field that uses computational systems to support
decisions in business and public life. Good solutions to operations research problems can …

Late acceptance hill-climbing for high school timetabling

GHG Fonseca, HG Santos, EG Carrano - Journal of Scheduling, 2016 - Springer
The application of the Late Acceptance Hill-Climbing (LAHC) to solve the High School
Timetabling Problem is the subject of this manuscript. The original algorithm and two …

MaxSAT-based large neighborhood search for high school timetabling

E Demirović, N Musliu - Computers & Operations Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract High School Timetabling (HSTT) is a well known and wide spread problem. The
problem consists of coordinating resources (eg teachers, rooms), times, and events (eg …