A survey of approaches for university course timetabling problem

H Babaei, J Karimpour, A Hadidi - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Scheduling is one of the problems which so many researches have been conducted on it
over the years. The university course timetabling problem which is an NP-hard problem is a …

A state of the art review of intelligent scheduling

MH Fazel Zarandi, AA Sadat Asl, S Sotudian… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2020 - Springer
Intelligent scheduling covers various tools and techniques for successfully and efficiently
solving the scheduling problems. In this paper, we provide a survey of intelligent scheduling …

A survey on human resource allocation problem and its applications

S Bouajaja, N Dridi - Operational Research, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, we present the existing literature on the human resource allocation problem.
We study the main resolution approaches: exact, heuristic and metaheuristics methods …

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 …

A hybrid particle swarm optimization for a university course scheduling problem with flexible preferences

DF Shiau - Expert Systems with Applications, 2011 - Elsevier
The timetabling problem at universities is an NP-hard problem concerned with instructor
assignments and class scheduling under multiple constraints and limited resources. A novel …

Stochastic optimisation timetabling tool for university course scheduling

P Pongcharoen, W Promtet, P Yenradee… - International journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
University timetabling is an NP-hard problem, which means that the amount of computation
required to find solutions increases exponentially with problem size. Timetabling is subject …

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 …

The effect of neighborhood structures on tabu search algorithm in solving course timetabling problem

CH Aladag, G Hocaoglu, MA Basaran - Expert systems with applications, 2009 - Elsevier
The course timetabling problem must be solved by the departments of Universities at the
beginning of every semester. It is a though problem which requires department to use …

Exact and heuristic methods for a university course scheduling problem

K **ang, X Hu, M Yu, X Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The University Course Scheduling Problem (UCSP) is a complex combinatorial
optimization problem. Most universities still use hand-operated scheduling, which usually …

Mathematical models and algorithms for a high school timetabling problem

SM Al-Yakoob, HD Sherali - Computers & Operations Research, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper investigates a high school timetabling problem in a case study related to Kuwait's
public educational system, which is concerned with assigning teachers to classes and time …