Tabu search heuristic for university course timetabling problem

An Efficient Tabu Search Heuristic for the School Timetabling Problem

The School Timetabling Problem (STP) regards the weekly scheduling of encounters between teachers and classes. Since this scheduling must satisfy organizational, pedagogical and personal costs, this problem is recognized as a very difficult combinatorial optimization problem. This work presents a new Tabu Search (TS) heuristic for STP. Two different memory based diversification strategies are p...

Adaptive Tabu Search for course timetabling

This paper presents an Adaptive Tabu Search algorithm (denoted by ATS) for solving a problem of curriculum-based course timetabling. The proposed algorithm follows a general framework composed of three phases: initialization, intensification and diversification. The initialization phase constructs a feasible initial timetable using a fast greedy heuristic. Then an adaptively combined intensific...

The effect of neighborhood structures on tabu search algorithm in solving university course timetabling problem

The design of course timetables for academic institutions is a very difficult job due to the huge number of possible feasible timetables with respect to the problem size. This process contains lots of constraints that must be taken into account and a large search space to be explored, even if the size of the problem input is not significantly large. Different heuristic approaches have been prop...

Variable Neighborhood Search Based Algorithm for University Course Timetabling Problem

In this paper a variable neighborhood search approach as a method for solving combinatory optimization problems is presented. A variable neighborhood search based algorithm for solving the problem concerning the university course timetable design has been developed. This algorithm is used to solve the real problem regarding the university course timetable design. It is compared with other algor...

Tabu Search Based Hyper-heuristic Approaches to Examination Timetabling