Solving the Balanced Academic Curriculum Problem Using the ACO Metaheuristic

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

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-8

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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.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/793671

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