Investigating Ahuja-Orlin's large neighbourhood search approach for examination timetabling

OR Spectrum

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 351-372

  Abdullah, Salwani ^a   Ahmadi, Samad ^b   Burke, Edmund K ^a   Dror, Moshe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Examination timetabling; Improvement graph; Large neighbourhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846865758     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-006-0034-7     Document Type: Review

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