NDLI: GOAL solver: a hybrid local search based solver for high school timetabling

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Fonseca, George Henrique Godim Santos, Haroldo Gambini Toffolo, Túlio Ângelo Machado Brito, Samuel Souza Souza, Marcone Jamilson Freitas
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This work presents a local search approach to the High School Timetabling Problem. The addressed timetabling model is the one stated in the Third International Timetabling Competition (ITC 2011), which considered many instances from educational institutions around the world and attracted seventeen competitors. Our team, named GOAL (Group of Optimization and Algorithms), developed a solver built upon the Kingston High School Timetabling Engine. Several neighborhood structures were developed and used in a hybrid metaheuristic based on Simulated Annealing and Iterated Local Search. The developed algorithm was the winner of the competition and produced the best known solutions for almost all instances.
Starting Page	77
Ending Page	97
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02545330
Journal	Annals of Operations Research
Volume Number	239
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15729338
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-08-14
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Third International Timetabling Competition High School Timetabling Problem Simulated Annealing Iterated Local Search Metaheuristics Operation Research/Decision Theory Combinatorics Theory of Computation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Management Science and Operations Research

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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GOAL solver: a hybrid local search based solver for high school timetabling