$${\varvec{teaspoon}}$$ teaspoon: solving the curriculum-based course timetabling problems with answer set programming

Mutsunori Banbara (), Katsumi Inoue (), Benjamin Kaufmann (), Tenda Okimoto (), Torsten Schaub (), Takehide Soh (), Naoyuki Tamura () and Philipp Wanko ()
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Mutsunori Banbara: Kobe University
Katsumi Inoue: National Institute of Informatics
Benjamin Kaufmann: Universität Potsdam
Tenda Okimoto: Kobe University
Torsten Schaub: Universität Potsdam
Takehide Soh: Kobe University
Naoyuki Tamura: Kobe University
Philipp Wanko: Universität Potsdam

Annals of Operations Research, 2019, vol. 275, issue 1, No 2, 3-37

Abstract: Abstract Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an approach to declarative problem solving, combining a rich yet simple modeling language with high performance solving capacities. We here develop an ASP-based approach to curriculum-based course timetabling (CB-CTT), one of the most widely studied course timetabling problems. The resulting teaspoon system reads a CB-CTT instance of a standard input format and converts it into a set of ASP facts. In turn, these facts are combined with a first-order encoding for CB-CTT solving, which can subsequently be solved by any off-the-shelf ASP systems. We establish the competitiveness of our approach by empirically contrasting it to the best known bounds obtained so far via dedicated implementations. Furthermore, we extend the teaspoon system to multi-objective course timetabling and consider minimal perturbation problems.

Keywords: Educational timetabling; Course timetabling; Answer set programming; Multi-objective optimization; Minimal perturbation problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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