Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

This book contains a selection of strictly refereed papers presented at the First International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, held in Edinburgh, UK, August/September 1995.
This is the first book entirely devoted to automated timetabling and meets the clear need for a wide-ranging survey of the state of the art in the area. The book contains four survey papers by leading experts together with 19 revised full papers presenting new results; the papers are organized in topical sections on reasoning about constraints, genetic algorithms, complexity issues, and tabu search and simulated annealing.

Inhalt
Recent developments in practical examination timetabling.- Computer-aided school and university timetabling: The new wave.- Scheduling, timetabling and rostering A special relationship?.- Examination timetabling in British Universities: A survey.- Employee timetabling, constraint networks and knowledge-based rules: A mixed approach.- Automated time table generation using multiple context reasonig with truth maintenance.- Investigations of a constraint logic programming approach to university timetabling.- Building University timetables using constraint logic programming.- Complete University modular timetabling using constraint logic programming.- Using Oz for college timetabling.- A smart genetic algorithm for university timetabling.- A genetic algorithm solving a weekly course-timetabling problem.- GA-based examination scheduling experience at Middle East Technical University.- Peckish initialisation strategies for evolutionary timetabling.- A memetic algorithm for university exam timetabling.- Extensions to a memetic timetabling system.- Automatic timetabling in practice.- The complexity of timetable construction problems.- Some combinatorial models for course scheduling.- The phase-transition niche for evolutionary algorithms in timetabling.- Three methods used to solve an examination timetable problem.- General cooling schedules for a simulated annealing based timetabling system.- How to decompose constrained course scheduling problems into easier assignment type subproblems.- Other timetabling papers.