A strategic view of University timetabling

Michael Lindahl, Andrew J. Mason, Thomas Stidsen and Matias Sørensen

European Journal of Operational Research, 2018, vol. 266, issue 1, 35-45

Abstract: University timetabling has traditionally been studied as an operational problem where the goal is to assign lectures to rooms and timeslots and create timetables of high quality for students and teachers. Two other important decision problems arise before this can be solved: what rooms are necessary, and in which teaching periods? These decisions may have a large impact on the resulting timetables and are rarely changed or even discussed. This paper focuses on solving these two strategic problems and investigates the impact of these decisions on the quality of the resulting timetables.

Keywords: Timetabling; Multiple objective programming; Integer programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.09.022

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