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 …

Educational timetabling is an ongoing challenging administrative task that is required in
most academic institutions. This is mainly due to a large number of constraints and …

Metaheuristics are an impressive area of research with extremely important improvements in
the solution of intractable optimization problems. Major advances have been made since the …

This is not so much a foreword as a testimonial. As I embarked on the pleasant journey of
reading through the chapters of this book, I became convinced that this is one of the best …

Graph colouring is one of those rare examples in the mathematical sciences of a problem
that, while easy to state and visualise, has many aspects that are exceptionally difficult to …

Examination timetabling is one of the most important administrative activities that takes place
in all academic institutions. In this paper, we present a critical discussion of the research on …

This paper introduces a new and very simple search methodology called Late Acceptance
Hill-Climbing (LAHC). It is a local search algorithm, which accepts non-improving moves …

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 …

The present paper argues that while the Spanish for Heritage Learners (SHL) profession
has given ample attention to sociolinguistic issues such as linguistic standards and …

This paper tackles the difficult but important task of objective algorithm performance
assessment for optimization. Rather than reporting average performance of algorithms …