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A survey of search methodologies and automated approaches for examination timetabling. A survey of search methodologies and automated approaches for examination timetabling rong qu, edmund burke, barry mccollum. A survey of search methodologies and automated system development for examination timetabling r. System demonstration of interactive course timetabling. It combines and evaluates several objectives and constraints according to the goals of the university, optimizing timetables for academic staff, students and classrooms. In proceedings of the ninth international conference on the practice and theory of automated timetabling. Jun 19, 2014 read the practice and theory of automated timetabling, annals of operations research on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Practice and theory of automated timetabling vi proceedings of the 6th international conference on the practice and theory of automated timetabling 30th august 1st september 2006 faculty of informatics, masaryk university brno, the czech republic. Practice and theory of automated timetabling 6 conf. Bibliography on exam timetabling problems 1995 by rong qu. In august 1995, an international conference was held on the practice and theory of automated timetabling patat. Furthermore, modularization means that students can take courses from a combination of several departments, possibly even in different faculties. The annals of operations research seeks submissions for a special issue on the practice and theory of automated timetabling. This book contains a selection of strictly refereed papers presented at the first international conference on the practice and theory of automated timetabling, held in edinburgh, uk, augustseptember 1995.
Practice and theory of automated timetabling ii springerlink. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postworkshop proceedings of the second international conference on the practice and theory of automated timetabling, patat97. Practice and theory of automated timetabling, gent, 2002, 187206 20 p. Of course, educationaltimetabling remains at the coreof timetabling research, and the papers in this volume represent the full range of this area including exam timetabling, room scheduling, and class rostering. Automated scheduling and timetabling bullet solutions. Patat international conference on the practice and. Practice and theory of automated timetabling springerlink. Third international conference, patat 2000 konstanz, germany, august 1618, 2000 selected papers.
Landasilva, dario and castillo, arturo and bowie, leslie and. Practice and theory of automated timetabling iv 4th. University timetabling based on hard constraints using. Student preferences and extended formulations ahmad muklason andrew j. A survey of search methodologies and automated system. A highlevel timetablingspecific model enforces structural constraints and allows for meaningful moves in the search space, such as swaps of the. In this work, the genetic algorithm is the method of solution. The main topics of interest and themes of the special issue include but are not limited to. Automated planning and scheduling, sometimes denoted as simply ai planning, is a branch of artificial intelligence that concerns the realization of strategies or action sequences, typically for execution by intelligent agents, autonomous robots and unmanned vehicles.
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