Reducing the Timeslot Used in Examination Timetable Problem

Optimization in University Student Timetables: A Comprehensive Literature Review

“…Figure 1 below shows the flow diagram for the comprehensive review process. Reference Title Year Country [11] Developing a mobile-based application system to accelerate the efficiency of the course rescheduling process Malaysia [12] Modified and hybridised bi-objective firefly algorithms for university course scheduling Thailand [13] A general mathematical model for university courses timetabling: Implementation to a public university in Malaysia Malaysia [14] A genetic algorithm for the real-world university course timetabling problem Malaysia [15] Grouping and heuristics for a multi-stage class timetabling system Malaysia [16] Hybrid whale optimization algorithm for solving timetabling problems of ITC 2019 Indonesia [17] Investigation of heuristic orderings with a perturbation for finding feasibility in solving real-world university course timetabling problem Malaysia [18] Lecturer-course assignment model in national joint courses program to improve education quality and lecturers' time preference Indonesia [19] A compromise programming for multi-objective task assignment problem Vietnam [20] A hybrid of heuristic orderings and variable neighbourhood descent for a real-life university course timetabling problem Malaysia [21] An SHO-based approach to timetable scheduling: a case study Vietnam [22] Application of genetic algorithm to optimize lecture scheduling based on lecturers' teaching day willingness Indonesia [23] Automation and optimization of course timetabling using the iterated local search hyper-heuristic algorithm with the problem domain from the 2019 international timetabling competition Indonesia [24] Class scheduling framework using decorator and facade design pattern Philippines [25] Effective solution of university course timetabling using particle swarm optimizer based hyper heuristic approach Malaysia [26] Lecturer teaching scheduling that minimizes the difference of total teaching load using goal programming Indonesia [27] Multi-agent class timetabling for higher educational institutions using Prometheus platform Philippines [28] Particle swarm optimisation variants and its hybridisation ratios for generating cost-effective educational course timetables Thailand [29] Stemming the educational timetable problems Indonesia [18] University course timetabling model in joint courses program to minimize the number of unserved requests Indonesia [30] An effective hybrid local search approach for the post enrolment course timetabling problem Malaysia...…”

“…[28] General framework with four layers model with Layer 1 to Layer 3 is called Stemming Phase involving preprocessing steps, and the Layer 4 is called Solution Finding Phase with enhanced simulated annealing-based search [29] Model leveraged by artificial bee colonies (ABC), cloud theory-based simulated annealing (CTB-SA), and genetic algorithm (GA) [18] Two phase hybrid local search algorithm with Tabu Search with Sampling and Perturbation with Iterated Local Search (TSSP-ILS) and Simulated Annealing with Reheating (SAR) with two preliminary runs (SAR-2P) [30] Two-stage heuristic algorithm consists of Lecturer Grouping Stage and Group Allocation Stage [33] Two hybrid variants of flower pollination algorithm (FPA) which were Jaccard FPA (JFPA) which uses the Jaccard index and a greedy selection mechanism, and Dragonfly FPA (DFPA) which incorporates the navigational traits of the dragonfly algorithm (DA) [34] Hybridization of Self-Adaptive and Simulated Annealing Hyper-Heuristic approach [35] Sequential constructive algorithm and Fuzzy Logic [36] Multi-Agent System (MAS) incorporating Integer Programming (IP)…”

“…Mauritsius, Binsar, and Legowo [29] presented a general framework with a layers model with Layer 1 to Layer 3 called Stemming Phase involving preprocessing steps, and Layer 4 is called Solution Finding Phase with enhanced simulated annealing-based search. The proposed framework was tested on different datasets and resulted in competitive performance of solutions, proving the significant contribution of the framework.…”

“…Reference Dataset description [11] UCSI University, Malaysia [12] Eleven datasets obtained from Naresuan University, Thailand [13] Semester 1 2017/2018, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia [14] Semester 1 2018/2019, Universiti Malaysia Sabah Labuan International Campus (UMSLIC), Malaysia [15] Semester 2016/s6 and semester 2016/s2, i-Cats University College (ICATS), Malaysia [16] ITC 2019 [17] ITC 2007 Semester 1 2019/2020 and semester 2 2019/2020, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia [18] Lecturers-courses assignment simulation [19] Spring semester of 2020 for Computing Fundamental Department, FPT University, Vietnam [20] Semester 1 2019/2020 and semester 2 2019/2020, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia [21] Faculty of Information Technology, Nong Lam University (NLU), Vietnam [22] Even semester 2018/2019, Informatics Engineering Study Program of Universitas Catur Insan Cendekia Cirebon, Indonesia [23] ITC 2019 [24] Generate 4 datasets based on assumptions [25] ITC 2002 and ITC 2007 [26] Department of Mathematics XYZ University [27] Semester 1 2018/2019, semester 2 2017/2018, semester 1 2017/2018, semester 2 2016/2017, University of the East, Philippines [28] Eleven datasets obtained from Naresuan University, Thailand [29] Socha STKIP (a medium-size Indonesian college from the year 2014 to the year 2016) Lewis Carter ITC 2007 [30] ITC 2002 ITC 2007 Socha Hard [31] Semester 2 2014/2015 and semester 1 2015/2016, Universiti Malaysia Sabah Labuan International Campus (UMSLIC), Malaysia [32] Odd and Event semester, Operational Division of Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta, Indonesia [33] Semester 1 2017/2018 and semester 2 2017/2018 from Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia [35] Socha [36] Semester 1 2016/2017, Universiti Malaysia Sabah Labuan International Campus (UMSLIC), Malaysia [37] Semester 2 2014/2015 and semester 1 2015/2016, Universiti Malaysia Sabah Labuan International Campus (UMSLIC), Malaysia…”

“…The instances were generated using Ben Paechter's problem instance generator. According to Mauritsius et al, [29], the dataset can be obtained from the supporting material link given [69].…”