International Timetabling Competition

Curriculm Based Course Timetabling

 

Curriculm based course timetable is necessary when a timetable must be available prior to student choice. When this is the case, events or classes must be given a time and room based on potential clashes. These potential clashes are arrived at based on the likelihood of students, for instance, taking course A and Course B. If both courses are a compulsory part of curricula, then the likelihood is 100 percent. If they are an optional part of the curricula then a decision must be made as to whether they should be timetabled together.

As with the post enrolment course timetabling formulation, the problem specified here is based on a real world scenario i.e. the University of Udine, Italy. Although not exhaustive by any means, the combination of hard and soft constraints provided are instrumental in gaining a workable solution.

Andrea,

Issue 1

Can you write/rewrite an introduction to this track? Have a look at the other Course timetabling Track. The key is to highlight the main differences and the reasons.

 

Issue 2

Can you provide information on the solution evaluation.

 

Issue 3

Please send through your first batch of datasets