Benchmarking curriculum‐based course timetabling: formulations, data formats, instances, validation, visualization, and results

We propose a set of formulations for the Curriculum‐Based Course Timetabling problem, with the aim of ‘capturing’ many real‐world formulations, and thus encouraging researchers to ‘reduce’ their specific problems to one of them, gaining the opportunity to compare and assess their results. This work is accompanied by a web application that maintains all the necessary infrastructures for benchmarking: validators, data formats, instances, reference scores, lower bounds, solutions, and visualizers. All instances proposed here are based on real data from various universities and they represent a variety of possible situations.