Hierarchical timetable construction

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey H. Kingston

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • PATAT'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Practice and theory of automated timetabling VI
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A hierarchical timetable is one made by recursively joining smaller timetables together into larger ones. Hierarchical timetables exhibit a desirable regularity of structure, at the cost of some limitation of choice in construction. This paper describes a method of specifying hierarchical timetables using mathematical operators, and introduces a data structure which supports the efficient and flexible construction of timetables specified in this way. The approach has been implemented in KTS, a web-based high school timetabling system created by the author.