Late acceptance hill-climbing for high school timetabling

George H. G. Fonseca (), Haroldo G. Santos () and Eduardo G. Carrano ()
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George H. G. Fonseca: Federal University of Minas Gerais
Haroldo G. Santos: Federal University of Ouro Preto
Eduardo G. Carrano: Federal University of Minas Gerais

Journal of Scheduling, 2016, vol. 19, issue 4, No 7, 453-465

Abstract: Abstract The application of the Late Acceptance Hill-Climbing (LAHC) to solve the High School Timetabling Problem is the subject of this manuscript. The original algorithm and two variants proposed here are tested jointly with other state-of-art methods to solve the instances proposed in the Third International Timetabling Competition. Following the same rules of the competition, the LAHC-based algorithms noticeably outperformed the winning methods. These results, and reports from the literature, suggest that the LAHC is a reliable method that can compete with the most employed local search algorithms.

Keywords: Late Acceptance Hill-Climbing; Third International Timetabling Competition; High School Timetabling; Local search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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