A three phased approach to final exam scheduling

T ARANI, V Lotfi - IIE transactions, 1989 - Taylor & Francis
A multi-phase examination scheduling process applicable to large university settings in
general and SUNY at Buffalo (SUNYAB) in particular is proposed. Each scheduling phase is …

A final-exam-scheduling package

V Lotfi, R Cerveny - Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents the implementation of a multi-phase final-exam-scheduling package at
a large university. The problem as it had evolved over time is discussed and a solution is …

Scheduling examinations to reduce second-order conflicts

N Balakrishnan, A Lucena, RT Wong - Computers & Operations Research, 1992 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of assigning groups of exams to time-slots such that the number of
students having to take exams in two or more successive time-slots is minimized. The exam …

Towards the construction of optimal examination schedules

G White, PW Chan - INFOR: Information Systems and Operational …, 1979 - Taylor & Francis
Assume c courses to be examined in pe: samination periods. Let the c courses be the nodes
(v1, v2,..., Vc) of a graph and let a student registered in both courses vi and vj be …

A Lagrangian relaxation approach to solve the second phase of the exam scheduling problem

T Arani, M Karwan, V Lofti - European Journal of Operational Research, 1988 - Elsevier
The problem of scheduling final exams at a large university can be viewed as a three phase
process. The first phase consists of grou** the exams into sets called exam blocks. The …

[PDF][PDF] Conflict reduction in examination schedules

AW Colijn, C Layfield - 1995). Proceedings of the 1st International …, 1995 - researchgate.net
Several times a year. Universities and Colleges must generate final examination schedulcs
for many of the courses they offer. There are many issues involved in this schedule …