Research Catalog

Title

Practice and theory of automated timetabling II : second international conference, PATAT'97, Toronto, Canada, August 1997 : selected papers / Edmund Burke, Michael Carter (eds.).

Author

International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (2nd : 1997 : Toronto, Ont.)

Publication

New York : Springer, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Burke, Edmund, Ph. D.
• Carter, Michael, 1946-

Description

xii, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Lecture notes in computer science ; 1408

Uniform Title

Lecture notes in computer science ; 1408.

Subjects

• Scheduling > Data processing > Congresses
• Constraints (Artificial intelligence) > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Recent Developments in Practical Course Timetabling / M. W. Carter and G. Laporte -- Space Allocation: An Analysis of Higher Education Requirements / E. K. Burke and D. B. Varley -- Off-the-Peg or Made-to-Measure? Timetabling and Scheduling with SA and TS / K. A. Dowsland -- Generalised Assignment-Type Problems: A Powerful Modeling Scheme / J. A. Ferland -- An Examination Scheduling Model to Maximize Students' Study Time / B. Bullnheimer -- A Comparison of Annealing Techniques for Academic Course Scheduling / M. A. S. Elmohamed, P. Coddington and G. Fox -- Some Observations about GA-based Exam Timetabling / P. Ross, E. Hart and D. Corne -- Experiments on Networks of Employee Timetabling Problems / A. Meisels and N. Lusternik -- Evolutionary Optimisation of Methodist Preaching Timetables / D. Corne and J. Ogden -- Improving a Lecture Timetabling System for University-Wide Use / B. Paechter, R. C. Rankin and A. Cumming -- A Constraint-Based Approach from Examination Timetabling Using Local Repair Techniques / P. David -- Generating Complete University Timetables by Combining Tabu Search with Constraint Logic / G. M. White and J. Zhang -- Construction of Basic Match Schedules (BMS) for Sports Competitions by Using Graph Theory / A. van Weert and J. A. M. Schreuder -- A Standard Data Format for Timetabling Instance / E. K. Burke, J. H. Kingston and P. A. Pepper -- Academic Scheduling / J. F. Blakesley, K. S. Murray and F. H. Wolf -- The Implementation of a Central Timetabling System in a Large British Civic University / B. McCollum -- A Brute Force and Heuristics Approach to Tertiary Timetabling / T. Nepal, S. W. Melville and M. I. Ally.

ISBN

3540649794 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

98039445

OCLC

• 504231276
• ocn504231276

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries