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Solving the Balanced Academic Curriculum Problem Using the ACO Metaheuristic

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  • José-Miguel Rubio
  • Wenceslao Palma
  • Nibaldo Rodriguez
  • Ricardo Soto
  • Broderick Crawford
  • Fernando Paredes
  • Guillermo Cabrera

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The balanced academic curriculum problem consists in the assignation of courses to academic periods satisfying all the load limits and prerequisite constraints. In this paper, we present the design of a solution to the balanced academic curriculum problem based on the ACO metaheuristic, in particular via the Best-Worst Ant System. We provide an experimental evaluation which illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach on a set of classic benchmarks as well as on real instances.

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  • José-Miguel Rubio & Wenceslao Palma & Nibaldo Rodriguez & Ricardo Soto & Broderick Crawford & Fernando Paredes & Guillermo Cabrera, 2013. "Solving the Balanced Academic Curriculum Problem Using the ACO Metaheuristic," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2013, pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:793671
    DOI: 10.1155/2013/793671
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