Intelligent examination timetabling system using hybrid intelligent water drops algorithm

• Main Authors: AlDeeb, Bashar A., Md Norwawi, Norita, Al-Betar, Mohammed A., Jali, Mohd Z.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/15574/1/PID217.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/15574/; http://www.icoci.cms.net.my/proceedings/2015/TOC.html

This paper proposes Hybrid Intelligent Water Drops (HIWD) algorithm to solve Tamhidi programs uncapacitated examination timetabling problem in Universiti Sains Islamic Malaysia (USIM).Intelligent Water Drops algorithm (IWD) is a population-based algorithm where each drop represents a solution and the sharing between the drops during the search lead to better drops.The results of this study prove that the proposed algorithm can produce a high quality examination timetable in shorter time in comparison with the manual timetable.