The examination timetabling problem at Universiti Malaysia Pahang: Comparison of a constructive heuristic with an existing software solution

• Main Authors: M. N. M., Kahar, G., Kendall
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Science Direct 2021
• Subjects: QA76 Computer software
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33571/1/The%20examination%20timetabling%20problem%20at%20Universiti%20Malaysia%20Pahang_%20FULL.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33571/2/The%20examination%20timetabling%20problem%20at%20Universiti%20Malaysia%20Pahang.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/33571/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2010.04.011; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2010.04.011

This paper presents a real-world, capacitated examination timetabling problem from Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Malaysia. The problem has constraints which have not been modelled before, these being the distance between examination rooms and splitting exams across several rooms. These constrain...