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PATAT
2000
Springer
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Tabu Search Techniques for Examination Timetabling
Abstract The Examination Timetabling problem regards the scheduling for the exams of a set of university courses, avoiding the overlapping of exams having students in common, fairl...
Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Schaerf
PATAT
2000
Springer
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A Hyperheuristic Approach to Scheduling a Sales Summit
The concept of a hyperheuristic is introduced as an approach rates at a higher lever of abstraction than current metaheuristic approaches. The hyperheuristic manages the choice of ...
Peter I. Cowling, Graham Kendall, Eric Soubeiga
PATAT
2000
Springer
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Examination Timetables and Tabu Search with Longer-Term Memory
The examination scheduling problem has been examined and a four-phase system using a tabu search algorithm, OTTABU, has been implemented. This system uses both recency-based short-...
George M. White, Bill S. Xie
PATAT
2000
Springer
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Three Methods to Automate the Space Allocation Process in UK Universities
Edmund K. Burke, Peter I. Cowling, J. D. Landa Sil...
PATAT
2000
Springer
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A Multicriteria Approach to Examination Timetabling
The main aim of this paper is to consider university examination timetabling problems as multicriteria decision problems. A new multicriteria approach to solving such problems is p...
Edmund K. Burke, Yuri Bykov, Sanja Petrovic
PATAT
2000
Springer
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A Language for Specifying Complete Timetabling Problems
The timetabling problem consists in fixing a sequence of meetings between teachers and students in a given period of time, satisfying a set of different constraints. There are a nu...
Luís Paulo Reis, Eugenio Oliveira