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) …

We propose a simulated annealing approach for the examination timetabling problem, as
formulated in the 2nd International Timetabling Competition. We apply a single-stage …

Combinatorial optimization problems arise, in many forms, in various aspects of everyday
life. Nowadays, a lot of services are driven by optimization algorithms, enabling us to make …

Automated timetabling is a challenging area in the timetabling and scheduling theory and
practice, intensively addressed in research papers in the last two decades. There are three …

The construction of population of initial timetable is an essential stage in population-based
metaheuristic approach for solving curriculum-based university course timetabling problem …

This paper describes the effects of pre-processors on the solution quality of the university
course timetabling problem. The University Course Timetabling Problem (UCTP) is regarded …

This paper deals with curriculum-based course timetabling. In particular, we describe the
results of a real application at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” In this regard, we …

The current implementation of the Academic Affairs Department of Universiti Utara Malaysia
(HEA, UUM) in scheduling the course timetabling is by using a ready-made software …

Since 2015 the Victor J. Koningsberger building has been used by multiple departments and
faculties of Utrecht University to host their lab sessions. To help with the scheduling of the …

3 Conclusions The performance of a self-generating multimeme algorithm for the course
timetabling problem is investigated on a subset of ITC2007 and SDU instances. Each …