A General Examination Scheduling System

Michael W. Carter, Gilbert Laporte and John W. Chinneck
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Michael W. Carter: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, Canada
Gilbert Laporte: École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, 5255 avenue Decelles, Montréal, Quebec H3T 1V6, Canada
John W. Chinneck: Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada

Interfaces, 1994, vol. 24, issue 3, 109-120

Abstract: Scheduling examinations is a problem in virtually every high school, college, and university. The basic challenge is to schedule examinations over a limited time period so as to avoid conflicts and to satisfy a number of side constraints. Over 10 years, we have developed EXAMINE, a robust and flexible examination scheduling system suited to the needs of most educational institutions. EXAMINE runs on a PC and is fast and user-friendly. It provides a choice of feasible schedules and solutions in which examinations are well spread out for most students. It handles requirements regarding the proximity of a student's exams, room or time availability, and other factors. Over the past two years, the University of Toronto's engineering faculty and Carleton University have collaborated with us to develop a software package, which has been implemented at both institutions.

Keywords: education systems: operations; computers: system design/operation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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