Article ID: | iaor2012861 |
Volume: | 194 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 385 |
End Page Number: | 397 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2012 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Daskalaki Sophia, Ahmadi Samad, Post Gerhard, Kingston Jeffrey, Kyngas Jari, Nurmi Cimmo, Ranson David |
Keywords: | education |
The High School Timetabling Problem is amongst the most widely used timetabling problems. This problem has varying structures in different high schools even within the same country or educational system. Due to lack of standard benchmarks and data formats this problem has been studied less than other timetabling problems in the literature. In this paper we describe the High School Timetabling Problem in several countries in order to find a common set of constraints and objectives. Our main goal is to provide exchangeable benchmarks for this problem. To achieve this we propose a standard data format suitable for different countries and educational systems, defined by an XML schema. The schema and datasets are available online.