A heuristic approach to simultaneous course/student timetabling

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 919-933

  Head, Christopher ^a   Shaban, Sami ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Cost based; Heuristic; Relational database; Scheduling; Simultaneous; Timetabling

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; STUDENTS;

HEURISTIC APPROACH; HEURISTIC FUNCTIONS; RELATIONAL DATABASE; TIMETABLING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 33748755967     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.05.015     Document Type: Article

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