Scheduling parallel conference sessions: an application of a novel hybrid clustering algorithm for ensuring constrained cardinality

B. Houlding and J. Haslett

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2013, vol. 40, issue 5, 961-971

Abstract: The 2011 World Statistics Congress included approximately 1150 oral and 250 poster presentations over approximately 250 sessions, with as many as 20 sessions running in parallel at any one time. Scheduling a timetable for such a conference is hence a complicated task, as ideally, talks on similar topics should be scheduled in the same session, and similar session topics should not be presented at identical times, allowing participants to easily decide which of the number of sessions to attend. Here, we consider a novel hybrid clustering algorithm that allows a solution under a constraint of fixed cardinality, and which is designed to find clusters of highly dense regions whilst forming others from the remaining outlying regions, hence providing a simple, yet data-generated, solution to such scheduling problems.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2012.760239

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