Non-linear great deluge with reinforcement learning for university course timetabling

This paper describes a non-linear great deluge hyper-heuristic incorporating a reinforcement learning mechanism for the selection of low-level heuristics and a non-linear great deluge acceptance criterion. The proposed hyper-heuristic deals with complete solutions, i.e. it is a solution improvement...

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Main Authors: Obit, Joe Henry, Landa-Silva, Dario, Sevaux, Marc, Ouelhadj, Djamila
Other Authors: Caserta, Marco
Format: Book Section
Published: Springer 2011
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32607/