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Thursday 11:00:00 Timetabling in education and sport
Room 126 - Chair: G. Vanden Berghe
- Educational timetabling, an overview of a mature research domain
Peter Demeester (KaHo Sint-Lieven)
Co-authors: G. Vanden Berghe, P. De Causmaecker
Abstract:
According to Anthony Wren is `timetabling the allocation, subject to constraints, of given resources to objects being placed in space-time, in such a way as to satisfy as nearly as possible a set of desirable objectives'.
In most cases the resources are either scarce or expensive (or a combination of both) and can only be assigned once per a time unit.
Looking at educational timetabling in particular, two large domains can be distinguished: course and examination timetabling.
Course timetabling is the assignment of students to rooms and timeslots.
In its turn, course timetabling can further be divided into two categories.
In the first one, students take curricula.
Individual students are not assigned to room-time slot combinations, but actually the curricula are.
Curricula should be scheduled in such a way that no student should attend more than one lecture at the same time.
Particularly on the European continent, curriculum based course timetabling is standard practice.
In the Anglo-American educational system, however, post enrolment based course timetabling is more dominant.
Students select several courses from a list, which leads to rather individual timetables.
In this case, it is appropriate that each student attend the lectures for each selected course.
Apart from course timetabling, we also consider examination timetabling.
Actually, although not very common, the same distinction as in course timetabling can be made: post enrolment and curriculum based examination timetabling.
In both cases, exams need to be assigned to room-time slot combinations.
Examination and course timetabling show significant differences.
In course timetabling, a student prefers a tight schedule, with, in the ideal case, no gaps between the lectures; in examination timetabling on the other hand, students appreciate some study time between two consecutive exams.
Both problem categories require several days or weeks for generating a solution.
In our presentation we give a literature overview on university timetabling and focus in particular on the multitude of problem defintions and the different approaches that were taken to come to a solution.
- Educational course timetabling: a case study
Herman Crauwels (campus De Nayer, Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst)
- A hyper-heuristics approach to solve a real-world and a benchmark examination timetabling problem
Peter Demeester (KaHo Sint-Lieven)
- The carry-over effect does not exist in football
Dries Goossens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Co-authors: F.C.R. Spieksma
Thursday 11:00:00 Transportation management
Room 130 - Chair: F. Semet
Thursday 11:00:00 Networks
Room 138 - Chair: B. Fortz
Thursday 11:00:00 Nonconvex optimization 1
Room 035 - Chair: F. Bach
Thursday 14:00:00 Constraint programming models 1
Room 126 - Chair: Y. Deville
Thursday 14:00:00 Vehicle routing
Room 130 - Chair: S. Limbourg
Thursday 14:00:00 Combinatorial optimization and IP applications
Room 138 - Chair: Q. Louveaux
Thursday 14:00:00 Nonconvex Optimization 2
Room 035 - Chair: R. Sepulchre
Thursday 16:10:00 Constraint programming models 2
Room 126 - Chair: P. Schaus
Thursday 16:10:00 Performance modeling
Room 130 - Chair: G. Janssens
Thursday 16:10:00 Scheduling
Room 138 - Chair: K. Sorensen
Thursday 16:10:00 Planning under uncertainty
Room 035 - Chair: R. Leus
Friday 09:00:00 Metaheuristics
Room 126 - Chair: J. Teghem
Friday 09:25:00 Production and distribution (9:25)
Room 130 - Chair: Y. Arda
Friday 09:00:00 Multiple criteria
Room 138 - Chair: R. Bisdorff
Friday 09:25:00 Stochastic models (9:25)
Room 035 - Chair: L. Esch
Friday 11:00:00 Constraint programming and Supply Chain Management
Room 126 - Chair: Y. Deville
Friday 11:00:00 OR in health management
Room 130 - Chair: P. De Causmaecker
Friday 11:00:00 Rankings and importance indices
Room 138 - Chair: JL. Marichal
Friday 11:00:00 Queueing
Room 035 - Chair: S. Wittevrongel
Friday 15:10:00 Optimization software
Room 126 - Chair: E. Loute
Friday 15:10:00 Integrated operations planning
Room 130 - Chair: B. Raa
Friday 15:10:00 Cycles in graphs
Room 138 - Chair: F. Spieksma
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