A Software Architecture for Timetable Construction

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey H. Kingston;Benjamin Yin-Sun Lynn

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PATAT '00 Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling III
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

As timetable construction research moves beyond the limitations of single, isolated solution methods, software architectures are needed that allow the researcher to combine many different solution methods in arbitrary ways in the solution of a single problem. This paper describes a blackboard architecture, implemented as an object-oriented framework, which addresses this need. Also included is a first application of the framework, comparing two quite different solution methods on a tutor allocation problem.