Real-life examination timetabling

نویسنده

  • Tomás Müller
چکیده

An examination timetabling problem at a large American university is presented. Though there are some important differences, the solution approach is based on the ITC 2007 winning solver which is integrated in the open source university timetabling system UniTime. In this work, nine real world benchmark data sets are made publicly available and the results on four of them are presented in this paper. A new approach to further decreasing the number of student conflicts by allowing some exams to be split into multiple examination periods is also studied.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Scheduling

دوره 19  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016