Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling II

Recent developments in practical course timetabling.- Space allocation: An analysis of higher education requirements.- Off-the-peg or made-to-measure? timetabling and scheduling with SA and TS.- Generalized assignment-type problems a powerful modeling scheme.- An examination scheduling model to maximize students’ study time.- A comparison of annealing techniques for academic course scheduling.- Some observations about GA-based exam timetabling.- Experiments on networks of employee timetabling problems.- Evolutionary optimisation of methodist preaching timetables.- Improving a lecture timetabling system for university-wide use.- A constraint-based approach for examination timetabling using local repair techniques.- Generating complete university timetables by combining tabu search with constraint logic.- Construction of basic match schedules for sports competitions by using graph theory.- A standard data format for timetabling instances.- Academic scheduling.- The implementation of a central timetabling system in a large British civic University.- A brute force and heuristics approach to tertiary timetabling.