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Educational Timetabling

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Automated Scheduling and Planning

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 505))

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This chapter is an introduction to the problems of timetabling educational institutions such as high schools and universities. These are large problems with multiple sources of NP-completeness, for which robust solvers do not yet exist, although steady progress is being made. This chapter presents the three main problems found in the literature: high school timetabling, university examination timetabling, and university course timetabling. It also examines some major subproblems of these problems: student sectioning, single student timetabling, and room assignment. This chapter also shows how real-world instances of these problems, with their many constraints, can be modelled in full detail, using a case study in high school timetabling as an example.

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Kingston, J.H. (2013). Educational Timetabling. In: Uyar, A., Ozcan, E., Urquhart, N. (eds) Automated Scheduling and Planning. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39304-4_4

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