NDLI: A human preference-driven object-based scheduling technique

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kee-Cheol Lee Jeong-Mo Moon Yung-Tai Byun
Copyright Year	1994
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hong-Ik Univ., Seoul, South Korea (Kee-Cheol Lee; Jeong-Mo Moon; Yung-Tai Byun)
Abstract	It is not easy to obtain optimal or sub-optimal solutions, if they exist, for a large complex scheduling job like timetable construction. In this paper, we confine a scheduling environment where objects have their own events competing for better slots on boards, objects have their own board slot preferences, and objects themselves belong to one or more classes of a society which globally constrains them. Neither conventional nor any improved backtracking alone is suitable for a complex scheduling job because of the huge search space, and central control alone is not enough because of the complexity of the scheduling problems. Recent developments in constraint languages like Prolog III may be considered as general approaches for complex scheduling problems, but only restrictive constraints are generally allowed, while humans also use preference constraints to solve these problems. We suggest a novel human preference-driven scheme: the added features include dynamic object switching with the class hierarchy considered, intelligent backtracking where temporal constraints are used for deciding backup points, and case-based revisions for refining or correcting old scheduling. This scheme has been implemented as a human-like constraint language and successfully tested for short-term lecture scheduling. Finally, to evaluate our approach, two degrees of satisfaction are defined and calculated for the tests.
Starting Page	91
Ending Page	96
File Size	507354
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780318625
DOI	10.1109/TENCON.1994.369329
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1994-08-22
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Humans Fires
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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