Optimal student sectioning on mandatory courses with various sections numbers

David Schindl ()
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David Schindl: Haute école de gestion de Genève, HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

Annals of Operations Research, 2019, vol. 275, issue 1, No 10, 209-221

Abstract: Abstract In sufficiently large schools, courses are given to classes in sections of various sizes. Consequently, classes have to be split into various given numbers of sections. We focus on how to dispatch the students into sections of equal size, so as to minimize the number of edges in the resulting conflict graph. As a main result, we show that subdividing the students set in a regular way is optimal. We then discuss our solution uniqueness and feasibility, as well as practical issues concerning teacher assignments to sections and the case of an additional course with unequal section sizes requirements.

Keywords: Student sectioning; Timetabling; Conflict graph (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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