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dc.contributor.author | Jat, SN | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yang, S | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-30T11:44:51Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-30T11:44:51Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 4th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2009), Dublin, Ireland: 180 - 191, 10 - 12 Aug 2009 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5880 | - |
dc.description | Copyright @ 2009 MISTA | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The university course timetabling problem is a combinatorial optimisation problem in which a set of events has to be scheduled in time slots and located in suitable rooms. The design of course timetables for academic institutions is a very difficult task because it is an NP-hard problem. This paper proposes a genetic algorithm with a guided search strategy and a local search technique for the university course timetabling problem. The guided search strategy is used to create offspring into the population based on a data structure that stores information extracted from previous good individuals. The local search technique is used to improve the quality of individuals. The proposed genetic algorithm is tested on a set of benchmark problems in comparison with a set of state-of-the-art methods from the literature. The experimental results show that the proposed genetic algorithm is able to produce promising results for the university course timetabling problem. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | MISTA 2009 | en_US |
dc.title | A guided search genetic algorithm for the university course timetabling problem | en_US |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en_US |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel (Active) | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel (Active)/School of Info. Systems, Comp & Maths | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Research Centres (RG) | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Research Centres (RG)/CIKM | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics (RG) | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics (RG)/CIKM | - |
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