Design and implementation of a course scheduling system using tabu search

Design and implementation of a course scheduling system using tabu search

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Article ID: iaor20023288
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 137
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 512
End Page Number: 523
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: heuristics, timetabling
Abstract:

Building a course timetable is a difficult and lengthy task which universities devote a large amount of human and material resources to every year. We have developed a computer package to solve this problem. The program runs on a PC and the user may set the objectives and parameters from among a wide range of possibilities. It has a user-friendly interface for the user to input the relevant data and obtain the corresponding results. The optimization process is based on a set of heuristic algorithms. The core is a Tabu Search procedure for which several strategies have been developed and tested in order to get a fast and powerful algorithm. The first tests of the package have produced satisfactory results.

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