Timetabling the courses offered at the Computer Science Department of the University of Munich requires the processing of hard and soft constraints. Hard constraints are conditions that must be satisfied, soft constraints, however, may be violated, but should be satisfied as much as possible. This paper shows how to model our timetabling problem as a partial constraint satisfaction problem and ...

Timetabling the courses offered at the Computer Science Department of the University of Munich requires the processing of hard and soft constraints. Hard constraints are conditions that must be satisfied, soft constraints, however, may be violated, but should be satisfied as much as possible. This paper shows how to model our timetabling problem as a partial constraint satisfaction problem and ...

University Course Timetabling (UCT) problem is a combinatorial optimization in which set of events has to be scheduled timeslots and located suitable room by considering all the constraint involved. A feasible timetable plays an important role ensuring tasks or are carried out appropriately. However, producing one not easy task due its large data size variety requirements In this research, math...

Scheduling lectures or exams for universities is a large and complex task. There are many different departments and faculties, each with their own ideas about how and when their courses should be run. Furthermore, modularisation means that students can take courses from a combination of several departments, possibly even in different faculties. Numerous university timetabling systems have been ...

sure to reduce costs while improving service delivery. A central component to this effort is the availability of timetabling systems that can find practical solutions to maximizing the utilization of teaching resources, such as facilities and staff, while not compromising on education quality. Traditional university timetabling is often concerned with the task of assigning a number of events, s...

The course timetabling problem at the German University in Cairo has been in existence ever since the establishment of the university in 2003. Courses offered at the university, academic staff resources, and room resources make the problem over-constrained. Currently timetables are manually designed. The process is effort and time consuming and the results are often not satisfactory. In this pa...

The university course timetabling problem deals with the task of scheduling lectures of a set of university courses into a given number of rooms and time periods, taking into account various hard and soft constraints. The goal of the International Timetabling Competitions ITC2002 and ITC2007 was to establish models for comparison that cover the most frequently found use cases. Our model, motiva...

We present an integer programming approach to the university course timetabling problem, in which weekly lectures have to be scheduled and assigned to rooms. Students’ curricula impose restrictions as to which courses may not be scheduled in parallel. Besides some hard constraints (no two courses in the same room at the same time, etc.), there are several soft constraints in practice which give...