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A two stage approach for high school timetabling

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  • Mo H.d.Khaled Yousef Shambour
  • Ahamad Tajudin Khader
  • Ahmed Kheiri
  • Ender Özcan
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Publication date1/12/2013
Host publicationNeural Information Processing: International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2013
Pages66-73
Number of pages8
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2013 - Daegu, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 3/11/20137/11/2013

Conference

Conference20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2013
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaegu
Period3/11/137/11/13

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume8226 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2013
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaegu
Period3/11/137/11/13

Abstract

There are different types of educational timetabling problems which are computationally difficult to solve. In this study, we deal with the High School Timetabling Problem which requires assignment of events, such as courses, and resources, such as classrooms, to time-slots under a set of different types of constraints. We describe an approach that hybridises an Evolutionary Algorithm variant and Simulated Annealing methods to solve this problem. This approach is tested over a set of real world instances obtained across different countries. The empirical results demonstrate the viability of the hybrid approach when compared to the previously proposed techniques.