Curriculum-Based Course Timetabling with Student Flow, Soft Constraints, and Smoothing Objectives: an Application to a Real Case Study

Massimiliano Caramia () and Stefano Giordani ()
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Massimiliano Caramia: Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Stefano Giordani: Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”

SN Operations Research Forum, 2020, vol. 1, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: Abstract This paper deals with curriculum-based course timetabling. In particular, we describe the results of a real application at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” In this regard, we developed a multi-objective mixed-integer model which attempts to optimize (i) the flow produced by the students enrolled in the lectures, (ii) soft conflicts produced by the possible overlap among compulsory and non-compulsory courses, and (iii) the number of lecture hours per curriculum within the weekdays. The model has been implemented and solved by means of a commercial solver and experiments show that the model is able to provide satisfactory solutions as compared with the real scenario under consideration.

Keywords: Timetabling; MIP model; Multi-objective optimization; Case study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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