On the use of multi neighbourhood structures within a Tabu-based memetic approach to university timetabling problems

Information Sciences

Volumn 191, Issue , 2012, Pages 146-168

  Abdullah, Salwani ^a   Turabieh, Hamza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ZARQA UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Memetic algorithm; Multi neighbourhood; Tabu search; University timetabling

Indexed keywords

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; CROSSOVER AND MUTATION; DATA SETS; IMPROVED ALGORITHM; MEMETIC ALGORITHMS; MEMETIC APPROACH; MULTI NEIGHBOURHOOD; NEIGHBOURHOOD; OPTIMISATIONS; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SEARCH LANDSCAPES; SEARCH PROCESS; SEARCH SPACES; SOLUTION QUALITY; TABU LIST; TABU SEARCH ALGORITHMS; UNIVERSITY TIMETABLING; UNIVERSITY TIMETABLING PROBLEMS;

SCHEDULING; TABU SEARCH;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84857651203     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.12.018     Document Type: Article

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