The Second International Timetabling Competition (ITC-2007): Curriculum-based Course Timetabling

Following the success of the First International Timetabling Competition in 2002, the timetabling research community is organising a new competition on this problem (opening August 1st). This new competition will be on three different timetabling problems, and one of the tracks concerns the course timetabling formulation that applies to Italian universities (called Curriculum-based Course Timetabling). The dataset is composed by real-world instances provided by the University of Udine. In this work, we overview the general rules of the competition and we describe in details the problem formulation and the instances proposed for this track.