University course timetabling: From theory to practice
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
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| Description | University course timetabling introduces diverse complex problems which may be very different in correspondence with country, institution, or even a school. Complexity of the problems is related with the size represented by the number of courses and students and with the characteristics such as curricula structure, course structure, or involved optimization criteria. In practice, standard benchmark problems represented by enrollment-based and curriculum-based timetabling must be extended by elective courses, course sections and issues related with fairness of generated timetables. Compactness of timetables common in high school timetabling becomes very complex issue given the diversity of student timetables. Theoretical advances with respect to above mentioned issues will be discussed. Practical application and experience with timetabling at two different institutions in Europe and United States will be summarized. |
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