Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling First International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, August 29 - September 1, 1995. Selected Papers

This book contains a selection of strictly refereed papers presented at the First International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, held in Edinburgh, UK, August/September 1995. This is the first book entirely devoted to automated timetabling and meets the clear need for...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Burke, Edmund (Editor), Ross, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Recent developments in practical examination timetabling
  • Computer-aided school and university timetabling: The new wave
  • Scheduling, timetabling and rostering — A special relationship?
  • Examination timetabling in British Universities: A survey
  • Employee timetabling, constraint networks and knowledge-based rules: A mixed approach
  • Automated time table generation using multiple context reasonig with truth maintenance
  • Investigations of a constraint logic programming approach to university timetabling
  • Building University timetables using constraint logic programming
  • Complete University modular timetabling using constraint logic programming
  • Using Oz for college timetabling
  • A smart genetic algorithm for university timetabling
  • A genetic algorithm solving a weekly course-timetabling problem
  • GA-based examination scheduling experience at Middle East Technical University
  • Peckish initialisation strategies for evolutionary timetabling
  • A memetic algorithm for university exam timetabling
  • Extensions to a memetic timetabling system
  • Automatic timetabling in practice
  • The complexity of timetable construction problems
  • Some combinatorial models for course scheduling
  • The phase-transition niche for evolutionary algorithms in timetabling
  • Three methods used to solve an examination timetable problem
  • General cooling schedules for a simulated annealing based timetabling system
  • How to decompose constrained course scheduling problems into easier assignment type subproblems
  • Other timetabling papers