A Visual Analytics Framework for the Examination Timetabling Problem

The research aspiration is to develop a visual framework for the examination timetabling problem. To perform the task we identified visual analytics as a multi-disciplinary field, directly supports the timetable designers, assist with visual metaphors, patterns to make decisions. Here we deemed three stages on the problem domain. It deals with pre-processing, during the processing and post-processing; in each of the processes are with transaction on data which transform into timetables. These processes are interrelated with one another for any heuristic based, evolutionary algorithm guided timetabling systems. However, the importance aspect is the significance of visualization among the three processes and how it contributes in each process. This paper discuss two aspects, it wraps the framework with literature and an implication on the pre-processing through visualizing data and knowledge with graph visualization.