Course Scheduling consists of assigning lecture events to a limited set of specific timeslots and rooms. The objective is to satisfy as many soft constraints as possible, while maintaining a feasible solution timetable. The most successful techniques to date require a compute-intensive examination of the solution neighbourhood to direct searches to an optimum solution. Although they may require...

The new genus Corylomyces, isolated from the surface of a hazelnut (Corylus avellana) in the French Pyrenees, is described, illustrated and compared with morphologically similar taxa. It is characterised by tomentose, ostiolate ascomata possessing long necks composed of erect to sinuose hairs, and one- or two-celled, opaque, lunate to reniform ascospores. Analyses of the SSU and LSU fragments r...

In this abstract we present a new exam timetabling algorithm together with a set of results on the university exam timetabling problems from the University of Toronto collection, available at ftp://ftp.mie.utoronto.ca/pub/carter/testprob/. A number of recent papers have studied these problems e.g. Carter et al. [7], Caramia et al. [6], Casey & Thompson [8], Abdullah et al. [1], Burke et al. [2]...