[HTML][HTML] Educational timetabling: Problems, benchmarks, and state-of-the-art results

S Ceschia, L Di Gaspero, A Schaerf - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a survey of the research contributions on the field of Educational Timetabling
with a specific focus on “standard” formulations and the corresponding benchmark …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-heuristic approaches for the university course timetabling problem

S Abdipoor, R Yaakob, SL Goh, S Abdullah - Intelligent Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Course timetabling is an ongoing challenge that universities face all around the world. This
combinatorial optimization task involves allocating a set of events into finite time slots and …

Path planning optimization of six-degree-of-freedom robotic manipulators using evolutionary algorithms

S Baressi Šegota, N Anđelić… - … journal of advanced …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Lowering joint torques of a robotic manipulator enables lowering the energy it uses as well
as increase in the longevity of the robotic manipulator. This article proposes the use of …

A fast simulated annealing algorithm for the examination timetabling problem

N Leite, F Melício, AC Rosa - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The timetabling problem involves the scheduling of a set of entities (eg, lectures, exams,
vehicles, or people) to a set of resources in a limited number of time slots, while satisfying a …

A bi-criteria hybrid Genetic Algorithm with robustness objective for the course timetabling problem

C Akkan, A Gülcü - Computers & Operations Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Traditional methods of generating timetables may yield high-quality solutions, but they may
not yield robust solutions that may easily be adapted to changing inputs. Incorporating late …

Practices in timetabling in higher education institutions: a systematic review

RA Oude Vrielink, EA Jansen, EW Hans… - Annals of operations …, 2019 - Springer
The study of differences between timetabling research presented in conferences like PATAT
or published in Annals of OR and commercial timetabling software used in Higher Education …

An overview of curriculum-based course timetabling

A Bettinelli, V Cacchiani, R Roberti, P Toth - Top, 2015 - Springer
Abstract In 2007, the Second International Timetabling Competition (ITC-2007) has been
organized and a formal definition of the Curriculum-Based Course Timetabling (CB-CTT) …

Two-stage multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for uncapacitated examination timetabling

R Bellio, S Ceschia, L Di Gaspero, A Schaerf - Computers & Operations …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract We propose a Simulated Annealing approach for the Examination Timetabling
problem, in the classical uncapacitated formulation of Carter et al.(1996). Our solver is …

Simulated annealing with penalization for university course timetabling

K Sylejmani, E Gashi, A Ymeri - Journal of Scheduling, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we present our solver for the new variant of the University Timetabling
Problem, which was introduced in the framework of Fourth International Timetabling …

Performance improvement strategies on Cuckoo Search algorithms for solving the university course timetabling problem

T Thepphakorn, P Pongcharoen - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …