An investigation of fuzzy multiple heuristic orderings in the construction of university examination timetables

DOI10.1016/j.cor.2007.12.007zbMath1162.90440OpenAlexW2109916763WikidataQ57968723 ScholiaQ57968723MaRDI QIDQ958431

Andrew J. Parkes, Hishammudin Asmuni, Barry McCollum, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Edmund Kieran Burke

Publication date: 4 December 2008

Published in: Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2007.12.007

zbMATH Keywords

examination timetablingfuzzy methodologiessequential construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Fuzzy and other nonstochastic uncertainty mathematical programming (90C70)

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Uses Software

• Hyperheuristics

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