† The author acknowledges support from Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua and PROMEP in Mexico. ABSTRACT. A hybrid population-based metaheuristic for the space allocation problem in academic institutions is presented that is based upon previous experiments using a range of techniques including hill-climbing, simulated annealing, tabu search and genetic algorithms. The proposed approach incorpora...

In this paper we present a novel Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system called CABAROST (CAsed-BAsed ROSTering) which was developed for personnel scheduling problems. CBR is used to capture and store examples of personnel manager behaviour which are then used to solve future problems. Previous examples of constraint violations in schedules and the repairs that were used to solve the violations are s...

We study the Bipartite Boolean Quadratic Programming Problem (BBQP) which is an extension of the well known Boolean Quadratic Programming Problem (BQP). Applications of the BBQP include mining discrete patterns from binary data, approximating matrices by rank-one binary matrices, computing the cut-norm of a matrix, and solving optimisation problems such as maximum weight biclique, bipartite max...