Title :
Scheduling of examination terms based on past experience
Author :
Kalpic, Damir ; Vanjak, Zvonimir ; Baranovic, Mirta
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput., Zagreb Univ., Croatia
Abstract :
A faculty with a few thousand students, two fields of study and a few hundred subjects/specialisations faced the problem of how to devise their examination schedule. The aim of the examination schedule was to maximally disperse the examination terms as perceived by the students. A mixed-integer model turned out to be too complex, and therefore a genetic algorithm was applied. The achieved results were satisfactory enough to be accepted in the current academic year
Keywords :
educational administrative data processing; genetic algorithms; integer programming; scheduling; data mining; examination term scheduling; fields of study; genetic algorithm; mixed-integer model; past experience; quadratic assignment problem; specialisations; students; subjects; university faculty; Calendars; Data mining; Databases; Genetic algorithms; Mathematical model; Processor scheduling; Programming profession;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications, International Workshop on, 2001.
Conference_Location :
Crimea
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7164-X
DOI :
10.1109/IDAACS.2001.942026
