| Article ID: | iaor20051437 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 153 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 102 |
| End Page Number: | 116 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2004 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Kopfer H., Schnberger J., Mattfeld D.C. |
| Keywords: | timetabling, heuristics |
We address the automatic generation of timetables for non-commercial sport leagues. By example of table-tennis we stress the particularity of non-commercial leagues, namely the limited access to sport facilities and temporary non-availability of sportsmen. For this problem class we propose a Memetic Algorithm backed by a constraint propagation based heuristic. The order of variable instantiation for this heuristic is evolved adaptively by means of a co-evolutionary approach.