A survey of practical applications of examination timetabling algorithms
Operations Research
Journal of Computational Physics
An Electromagnetism-like Mechanism for Global Optimization
Journal of Global Optimization
A MAX-MIN Ant System for the University Course Timetabling Problem
ANTS '02 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ant Algorithms
A Tabu-Search Hyperheuristic for Timetabling and Rostering
Journal of Heuristics
On the Convergence of a Population-Based Global Optimization Algorithm
Journal of Global Optimization
An electromagnetic meta-heuristic for the nurse scheduling problem
Journal of Heuristics
An Extended Implementation of the Great Deluge Algorithm for Course Timetabling
ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part I: ICCS 2007
Generating University Course Timetable Using Genetic Algorithms and Local Search
ICCIT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Third International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology - Volume 01
Metaheuristics: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization
Metaheuristics: Progress in Complex Systems Optimization
INFORMS Journal on Computing
A perspective on bridging the gap between theory and practice in university timetabling
PATAT'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Practice and theory of automated timetabling VI
The electromagnetism meta-heuristic applied to the resource-constrained project scheduling problem
EA'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Artificial Evolution
RSKT'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Rough set and knowledge technology
Fish swarm intelligent algorithm for the course timetabling problem
RSKT'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Rough set and knowledge technology
Computers and Operations Research
Design optimization with chaos embedded great deluge algorithm
Applied Soft Computing
A hybrid metaheuristic approach to the university course timetabling problem
Journal of Heuristics
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Dual sequence simulated annealing with round-robin approach for university course timetabling
EvoCOP'10 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization
On the performance of Scatter Search for post-enrolment course timetabling problems
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
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Combinations of population-based approaches with local search have provided very good results for a variety of scheduling problems. This paper describes the development of a population-based algorithm called Electromagnetism-like mechanism with force decay rate great deluge algorithm for university course timetabling. This problem is concerned with the assignment of lectures to a specific numbers of timeslots and rooms. For a solution to be feasible, a number of hard constraints must be satisfied. A penalty value which represents the degree to which various soft constraints are satisfied is measured which reflects the quality of the solution. This approach is tested over established datasets and compared against state-of-the-art techniques from the literature. The results obtained confirm that the approach is able to produce solutions to the course timetabling problem which demonstrate some of the lowest penalty values in the literature on these benchmark problems.