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 …

Hyper-heuristics is a fairly recent technique that aims at effectively solving various real-world
optimization problems. This is the first book on hyper-heuristics, and aims to bring together …

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 …

The university course timetabling problem (UCTP) arises every academic year and must be
solved by academic staff with/without a course timetabling tool. A Hybrid Self-adaptive …

Academic institutions may be edging towards a global uncertainty, recession, and a string of
financial difficulties. An effective course timetabling is one of managerial strategies to …

Limited attention has been paid to assessing the generality performance of hyper-heuristics.
The performance of hyper-heuristics has been predominately assessed in terms of optimality …

The paper investigates a partial exam assignment approach for solving the examination
timetabling problem. Current approaches involve scheduling all of the exams into time slots …

Scheduling Timetables for courses in the big departments in the universities is a very hard
problem and is often be solved by many previous works although results are partially …

Timetabling is a managerial problem that recurringly appears in various domains such as
education, transport, sports, and staff management. The combinatorial nature of this problem …

With a recently defined AutoGCOP framework, the design of local search algorithms has
been defined as the composition of elementary algorithmic components. The effective …