Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV 4th International Conference, PATAT 2002, Gent, Belgium, August 21-23, 2002, Selected Revised Papers

Thisvolumecontainsaselectionofpapersfromthe4thInternationalConference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002) held in Gent, August 21–23, 2002. Since the ?rst conference in Edinburgh in 1995, the range of timetabling applications at the conferences has become broader and mor...

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Other Authors: Burke, Edmund (Editor), Causmaecker, Patrick De (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • General Issues
  • Constraints of Availability in Timetabling and Scheduling
  • A Standard Framework for Timetabling Problems
  • Solving Dynamic Resource Constraint Project Scheduling Problems Using New Constraint Programming Tools
  • Sports Timetabling
  • Integer and Constraint Programming Approaches for Round-Robin Tournament Scheduling
  • Characterizing Feasible Pattern Sets with a Minimum Number of Breaks
  • Solving the Travelling Tournament Problem: A Combined Integer Programming and Constraint Programming Approach
  • Employee Timetabling
  • Personnel Scheduling in Laboratories
  • Scheduling Doctors for Clinical Training Unit Rounds Using Tabu Optimization
  • Relaxation of Coverage Constraints in Hospital Personnel Rostering
  • Storing and Adapting Repair Experiences in Employee Rostering
  • Scheduling Agents – Distributed Timetabling Problems
  • Examination Timetabling
  • A Multiobjective Optimisation Technique for Exam Timetabling Based on Trajectories
  • Enhancing Timetable Solutions with Local Search Methods
  • A Hybrid Algorithm for the Examination Timetabling Problem
  • GRASPing the Examination Scheduling Problem
  • University Course and School Timetabling
  • Search Strategy for Constraint-Based Class–Teacher Timetabling
  • Multi-neighbourhood Local Search with Application to Course Timetabling
  • Knowledge Discovery in a Hyper-heuristic for Course Timetabling Using Case-Based Reasoning
  • Generalizing Bipartite Edge Colouring to Solve Real Instances of the Timetabling Problem
  • Flow Formulations for the Student Scheduling Problem
  • University Course Timetabling with Soft Constraints
  • A Comparison of the Performance of Different Metaheuristics on the Timetabling Problem