An extensible modelling framework for timetabling problems

Authors:
David Ranson;Samad Ahmadi
Affiliations:
Representational Systems Lab, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK;School of Computing, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, UK
Venue:
PATAT'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Practice and theory of automated timetabling VI
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Several modelling languages have been proposed to standardize the specification, solution and data format for timetabling problems. As of now these languages have not been adopted as standards and are seen as not simplifying the modelling process, lacking features and offering little advantage over traditional programming languages. In contrast to this approach we propose a new language-independent modelling framework for general timetabling problems based on past experience of modelling the examination timetabling problem. This framework is a work in progress but demonstrates the possibilities and convenience such a model would afford.