A Hybrid of Heuristic Orderings and Variable Neighbourhood Descent for a Real Life University Course Timetabling Problem

• Main Authors: Chen, Mei Ching, Sze, San Nah, Goh, Say Leng, Lau, Sei Ping
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37241/1/Sei%20Ping%20Lau.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37241/; https://www.ijosi.org/index.php/IJOSI/article/view/459
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Academic institutions face timetabling problem every semester. Addressing timetabling problem at academic institutions is a challenging combinatorial optimisation task both in theory and practice. This is due to the size of the problem instances as well as the number of constraints that must be sa...