Operational research in education

J Johnes - European journal of operational research, 2015 - Elsevier
Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the
discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include …

An integer programming formulation for a case study in university timetabling

S Daskalaki, T Birbas, E Housos - European journal of operational research, 2004 - Elsevier
A novel 0–1 integer programming formulation of the university timetabling problem is
presented. The model provides constraints for a great number of operational rules and …

A survey of school timetabling research

N Pillay - Annals of Operations Research, 2014 - Springer
Although there has been a fair amount of research in the area of school timetabling, this
domain has not developed as well as other fields of educational timetabling such as …

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 …

Implementation of a university course and examination timetabling system

M Dimopoulou, P Miliotis - European Journal of Operational Research, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper reports the design and implementation of a PC-based computer system to aid the
construction of a combined university course–examination timetable. The specific difficulties …

A simulated annealing with a new neighborhood structure based algorithm for high school timetabling problems

D Zhang, Y Liu, R M'Hallah, SCH Leung - European journal of operational …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper approximately solves the high school timetabling problem using a simulated
annealing based algorithm with a newly-designed neighborhood structure. In search for the …

[PDF][PDF] An overview of school timetabling research

N Pillay - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on …, 2010 - patatconference.org
Although there has been a fair amount of research in the area of school timetabling, this
domain has not grown as well as other fields of educational timetabling such as university …

An XML format for benchmarks in high school timetabling

G Post, S Ahmadi, S Daskalaki, JH Kingston… - Annals of Operations …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The High School Timetabling Problem is amongst the most widely used timetabling
problems. This problem has varying structures in different high schools even within the same …

Constraint programming approach for school timetabling

C Valouxis, E Housos - Computers & Operations Research, 2003 - Elsevier
In this paper, the timetabling problem for a typical high school environment was modeled
and solved using a constraint programming (CP) approach. In addition, operations research …

Solution approaches to the course timetabling problem

SA MirHassani, F Habibi - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2013 - Springer
University course timetabling is one of the most important administrative activities that take
place in all academic institutions. In this work, we go over the main points of recent papers …