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Abstract | ||
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Educational timetabling problems, namely, university examination timetabling, university course timetabling and school timetabling, are combinatorial optimization problems requiring the allocation of resources so as to satisfy a specified set of constraints. Hyper-heuristics have been successfully applied to a variety of combinatorial optimization problems. This is a rapidly growing field which aims at providing generalized solutions to combinatorial optimization problems by exploring a heuristic space instead of a solution space. From the research conducted thus far it is evident that hyper-heuristics are effective at solving educational timetabling problems and have the potential of advancing this field by providing a generalized solution to educational timetabling as a whole. Given this, the paper provides an overview and critical analysis of hyper-heuristics for educational timetabling and proposes future research directions, focusing on using hyper-heuristics to provide a generalized solution to educational timetabling. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2016 | 10.1007/s10479-014-1688-1 | Annals of Operations Research |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Hyper-heuristics,Educational timetabling,University examination timetabling,University course timetabling,School timetabling | Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Combinatorial optimization problem,Operations research,Heuristics,Resource allocation,Mathematics | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
239 | 1 | 0254-5330 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
15 | 0.55 | 51 |
Authors | ||
1 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nelishia Pillay | 1 | 237 | 33.72 |