A hybrid particle swarm optimization based algorithm for high school timetabling problems

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3472-3489

  Tassopoulos, Ioannis X ^a   Beligiannis, Grigorios N ^a  

^a University of Western Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

Educational organizations; Particle swarm optimization; Real world application; School timetabling problem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; HIGH SCHOOL; HYBRID PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; HYBRID PSO; INPUT DATAS; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; SCHOOL TIMETABLING; SCHOOL TIMETABLING PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 84865844254     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2012.05.029     Document Type: Article

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