A general approach for exam timetabling: A real-world and a benchmark case

PATAT 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 486-489

  Demeester, Peter ^a   De Causmaecker, Patrick ^b   Berghe, Greet Vanden ^a  

^a Departement Industrieel Ingenieur   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; EXAM TIMETABLING; EXAMINATION TIMETABLING; HYPER-HEURISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; META HEURISTICS; REAL-WORLD; SEARCH SPACES;

HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84880756849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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