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Degree programs with a largely fixed timetable require centralized planning of student groups (sections). Typically, group sizes for exercises and practicals are small, and different groups are taught at the same time. To avoid late or weekend sessions, exercises and practicals of the same or of different subjects can be scheduled concurrently, and the duration of lessons can vary. By means of an integer linear program, an optimal group division is carried out. To this end, groups have to be assigned to time slots and students have to be divided into groups such that they do not have conflicting appointments. The optimization goal is to create homogeneous group sizes.
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Goebbels, S., Pfeiffer, T. (2020). Optimal Student Sectioning at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. In: Neufeld, J.S., Buscher, U., Lasch, R., Möst, D., Schönberger, J. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2019. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_20
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