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An Investigation of a Tabu-Search-Based Hyper-Heuristic for Examination Timetabling

In: Multidisciplinary Scheduling: Theory and Applications

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  • Graham Kendall

    (University of Nottingham)

  • Naimah Mohd Hussin

    (University of Nottingham)

Abstract

This paper investigates a tabu-search-based hyper-heuristic for solving examination timetabling problems. The hyper-heuristic framework uses a tabu list to monitor the performance of a collection of low-level heuristics and then make tabu heuristics that have been applied too many times, thus allowing other heuristics to be applied. Experiments carried out on examination timetabling datasets from the literature show that this approach is able to produce good quality solutions.

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  • Graham Kendall & Naimah Mohd Hussin, 2005. "An Investigation of a Tabu-Search-Based Hyper-Heuristic for Examination Timetabling," Springer Books, in: Graham Kendall & Edmund K. Burke & Sanja Petrovic & Michel Gendreau (ed.), Multidisciplinary Scheduling: Theory and Applications, pages 309-328, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-27744-8_15
    DOI: 10.1007/0-387-27744-7_15
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    Cited by:

    1. Edmund Burke & Rong Qu & Amr Soghier, 2014. "Adaptive selection of heuristics for improving exam timetables," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 218(1), pages 129-145, July.
    2. R Bai & E K Burke & G Kendall, 2008. "Heuristic, meta-heuristic and hyper-heuristic approaches for fresh produce inventory control and shelf space allocation," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 59(10), pages 1387-1397, October.
    3. Massimiliano Caramia & Paolo Dell'Olmo & Giuseppe F. Italiano, 2008. "Novel Local-Search-Based Approaches to University Examination Timetabling," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 20(1), pages 86-99, February.
    4. Christos Gogos & Panayiotis Alefragis & Efthymios Housos, 2012. "An improved multi-staged algorithmic process for the solution of the examination timetabling problem," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 194(1), pages 203-221, April.
    5. De Boeck, Liesje & Beliën, Jeroen & Creemers, Stefan, 2016. "A column generation approach for solving the examination-timetabling problemAuthor-Name: Woumans, Gert," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 253(1), pages 178-194.

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