Full list of papers

The Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VIII
Barry McCollum, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, UK
George White, University of Ottawa, Canada
(editors)

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Plenary Speakers
Scheduling English Football Fixtures: Consideration of Two Conflicting Objectives.
Graham Kendall , Barry McCollum, Frederico Cruz and Paul McMullan.
1-15
Estimating the limiting value of optimality for very large NP problems
George White.
16-25
Timetable Construction: The Algorithms and Complexity Perspective
Jeffrey H. Kingston.
26-36
Solution Method and Decision Support System Framework
David M. Ryan and Natalia J. Rezanova.
37-40
Full papers
Curriculum-based Course Timetabling with SAT and MaxSAT
Roberto Asín Achá and Robert Nieuwenhuis.
42-56
A Combination of Metaheuristic Components based on Harmony Search for The Uncapacitated Examination Timetabling
Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Ahamad Tajudin Khader and J. Joshua Thomas.
57-80
Bridging the Gap between Self Schedules and Feasible Schedules in Staff Scheduling
Eyjólfur Ingi Ásgeirsson.
81-96
An Evolutionary Algorithm in a Multistage Approach for an Employee Rostering Problem with a High Diversity of Shifts
Zdenek Baumelt, Premysl Sucha and Zdenek Hanzalek.
97-112
Network Flow Models for Intraday Personnel Scheduling Problems
Peter Brucker and Rong Qu.
113-121
Round-Robin Tournaments with homogenous rounds
Bregje Buiteveld, Erik Van Holland, Gerhard Post and Dirk Smit.
122-135
Adaptive Selection of Heuristics for Improving Constructed Exam Timetables
Edmund Burke, Rong Qu and Amr Soghier.
136-151
Iterated Heuristic Algorithms for the Classroom Assignment Problem
Ademir Constantino, Walter Marcondes Filho and Dario Landa-Silva.
152-166
A Variable Neighborhood Search based Matheuristic for Nurse Rostering Problems
Federico Della Croce and Fabio Salassa.
167-175
On-line timetabling software
Florent Devin and Yannick Le Nir.
176-192
Soccer Tournament Scheduling Using Constraint Programming
Mike DiNunzio and Serge Kruk.
193-200
Truck Driver Scheduling and Australian Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue Law
Asvin Goel.
201-210
Distributed Scatter Search for the Examination Timetabling Problem
Christos Gogos, George Goulas, Panayiotis Alefragis, Vasilios Kolonias and Efthymios Housos.
211-223
A Comparison of Heuristics on a Practical Case of Sub-Daily Staff Scheduling
Maik Güenther and Volker Nissen.
224-240
The Bi-Objective Master Physician Scheduling Problem
Aldy Gunawan and Hoong Chuin Lau.
241-258
Combining VNDS with Soft Global Constraints Filtering for Solving NRPs
Jean-Philippe Métivier, Patrice Boizumault and Samir Loudni.
259-272
An efficient and robust approach to generate high quality solutions for the Travelling Tournament Problem
Douglas Moody, Amotz Bar Noy and Graham Kendall.
273-282
Youth Sports League Scheduling
Douglas Moody, Amotz Bar Noy and Graham Kendall.
283-293
A Novel Event Insertion Strategy for Creating Feasible Course Timetables
Moritz Mühlenthaler and Rolf Wanka.
294-304
Choquet Integral for Combining Heuristic Values for Exam Timetabling Problem
Tiago Pais and Edmund Burke.
305-320
An Overview of School Timetabling Research
Nelishia Pillay.
321-335
Evolving Hyper-Heuristics for a Highly Constrained Examination Timetabling Problem
Nelishia Pillay.
336-346
An XML Format for Benchmarks in High School
Christos Gogos, Jari Kyngas, Cimmo Nurmi, Haroldo Santos, Ben Rorije and Andrea Schaerf.
347-352
A Construction Approach for Examination Timetabling based on Adaptive Decomposition and Ordering
Syariza Abdul Rahman, Edmund Burke, Andrzej Bargiela, Barry McCollum and Ender Özcan.
353-372
New Era for Timetable is Timetable Hub
Amir Nurashid Mohamed Said.
373-384
Cross-Curriculum Scheduling with Themis - A Course-Timetabling System for Lectures and Sub-Events
Heinz Schmitz and Christian Heimfarth.
385-391
The Perception of Interaction on the University Examination Timetabling Problem
J. Joshua Thomas, Ahamad Tajudin Khader, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar and Bahari Belaton.
392-416
A 5.875-Approximation for the Traveling Tournament Problem
Stephan Westphal and Karl Noparlik.
417-426
Comparison of Algorithms solving School and Course Time Tabling Problems using the Erlangen Advanced Time Tabling System (EATTS)
Peter Wilke and Helmut Killer.
427-439
Walk Up Jump Down - a new Hybrid Algorithm for Time Tabling Problems
Peter Wilke and Helmut Killer.
440-446
The Erlangen Advanced Time Tabling System (EATTS) Unified XML File Format for the Specification of Time Tabling Systems
Peter Wilke and Johannes Ostler.
447-464
Extended abstracts
Assigning referees to a Chilean football tournament by integer programming and patterns
Fernando Alarcón, Guillermo Durán and Mario Guajardo.
466-467
Tabu assisted guided local search approaches for freight service network design
Ruibin Bai and Graham Kendall.
468-471
The Relaxed Traveling Tournament Problem
Renjun Bao and Michael Trick.
472-476
Modelling issues in nurse rostering
Burak Bilgin, Patrick De Causmaecker and Greet Vanden Berghe.
477-480
Semidefinite Programming Relaxations in Timetabling
Edmund K. Burke, Jakub Marecek and Andrew J. Parkes.
481-485
A general approach for exam timetabling: a real-world and a benchmark case
Peter Demeester, Greet Vanden Berghe and Patrick De Causmaecker.
486-489
A Hybrid LS-CP Solver for the Shifts and Breaks Design Problem
Luca Di Gaspero, Johannes Gaertner, Nysret Musliu, Andrea Schaerf, Werner Schafhauser and Wolfgang Slany.
490-492
Diamant
Ruben Gonzalez-Rubio.
493-497
First International Nurse Rostering Competition 2010
Stefaan Haspeslagh, Patrick De Causmaecker, Martin Stolevik and Andrea Schaerf.
498-501
A Weighted-Goal-Score Approach to Measure Match Importance in the Malaysian Super League0-
Nor Hayati Abdul Hamid, Graham Kendall and Naimah Mohd Hussin.
502-506
Swiss National Ice Hockey Tournament (NLA)
Tony Hürlimann.
507-507
An Approximation Algorithm for the Unconstrained Traveling Tournament Problem
Shinji Imahori, Tomomi Matsui and Ryuhei Miyashiro.
508-512
Data Formats for Exchange of Real-World Timetabling Problem Instances and Solutions
Jeffrey H. Kingston.
513-516
Solving the General High School Timetabling Problem
Jeffrey H. Kingston.
517-518
Towards an Integrated Workforce Management System
Dario Landa-Silva, Arturo Castillo, Leslie Bowie and Hazel Johnston.
519-523
The Home Care Crew Scheduling Problem
Jesper Larsen, Anders Dohn, Matias Sevel Rasmussen and Tor Justesen.
524-526
University course scheduling problem with traffic impact considerations
Loo Hay Lee, Ek Peng Chew, Kien Ming NG, Hui-Chih Hung, Jia Wang and Hui Xiao.
527-528
Ground Crew Rostering with Work Patterns at a Major European Airline
Richard Lusby, Anders Dohn, Troels Range and Jesper Larsen.
529-530
Properties of Yeditepe Examination Timetabling Benchmark Instances
Andrew J. Parkes and Ender Özcan.
531-534
Combined Blackbox and AlgebRaic Architecture (CBRA)
Andrew J. Parkes.
535-538
Solving the Airline Crew Pairing Problem using Subsequence Generation
Matias Sevel Rasmussen, David M. Ryan, Richard M. Lusby and Jesper Larsen.
539-541
Grouping Genetic Algorithm with Efficient Data Structures for the University Course Timetabling Problem
Felipe A. Santos and Alexandre C. B. Delbem.
542-546
Modelling and Solving the Generalised Balanced Academic Curriculum Problem with Heterogeneous Classes
Andrea Schaerf, Marco Chiarandini and Luca Di Gaspero.
547-550
Modeling and Optimizing a real Railway Corridor
Thomas Schlechte, Ralf Borndoerfer, Elmar Swarat and Thomas Graffagnino.
551-552
A hyper-heuristic approach for assigning patients to hospital rooms
Wim Vancroonenburg, Mustafa Misir, Burak Bilgin, Peter Demeester and Greet Vanden Berghe.
553-555
The Design and Implementation of an Interactive Course-Timetabling System
Anthony Wehrer and Jay Yellen.
556-558
The Erlangen Advanced Time Tabling System (EATTS) Version 5
Peter Wilke.
559-565
Timetabling the major English cricket fixtures
Mike Wright.
566-568
System Demonstrations
Timetabling a University Dental School
Hadrien Cambazard, Barry O'Sullivan, John Sisk, Robert McConnell and Christine McCreary.
569-572
Interactive Course Timetabling
Tomáš Müller, Keith Murray and Hana Rudová.
573-577

Selected Papers - Special Issue

Annals of Operations Research
Volume 218, Issue 1, July 2014
The Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (2010)
Issue Editors: Barry McCollum, Edmund K. Burke
ISSN: 0254-5330 (Print) 1572-9338 (Online)