Adaptive selection of heuristics for improving exam timetables

This paper presents a hyper-heuristic approach which hybridises low-level heuristic moves to improve timetables. Exams which cause a soft-constraint violation in the timetable are ordered and rescheduled to produce a better timetable. It is observed that both the order in which exams are rescheduled...

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Main Authors: Burke, Edmund, Qu, Rong, Soghier, Amr
Format: Article
Published: Springer 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28276/