An informed genetic algorithm for the high school timetabling problem

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 408-412

  Raghavjee, Rushil ^a   Pillay, Nelishia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

genetic algorithms; school timetabling

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION HEURISTICS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; HARD CONSTRAINTS; HIGH SCHOOL TIMETABLING PROBLEMS; INITIAL POPULATION; MUTATION OPERATORS; SCHOOL TIMETABLING; SOFT CONSTRAINT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENGINEERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; RESEARCH; SCHEDULING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84885214210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1899503.1899555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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