A computational study of a cutting plane algorithm for university course timetabling

Journal of Scheduling

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 497-514

  Avella, Pasquale ^a   Vasil'ev, Igor ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c MATROSOV INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND CONTROL THEORY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BRANCH-AND-CUT ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL PROPERTIES; SET PACKING POLYTOPE; SET PACKING PROBLEM;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 26644466566     PISSN: 10946136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10951-005-4780-1     Document Type: Article

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