Exploring a Flexible Scoring Scheme for a Heuristic Search Technique: A Case Study of University Timetables
- 1 Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Abstract
The university course timetabling management system is proposed in this work. The proposed system applies depth-bounded discrepancy search together with the heuristic and the hard-soft constraints to guide the search to a good solution space. To make the proposed system easy to use by a non-technical user, this work explores a scoring scheme including the effects of the ordering heuristics, the effects of the objective model and the effects of the workload characteristics in order to pre-define a set of configurations and to automatically adapt to the changes in the workload. The experimental results show that the proposed system can find a suitable solution for various workloads. The feedback from the potential users on the proposed system is positive.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2020.660.670
Copyright: © 2020 Sangsuree Vasupongayya, Warakorn Sitthirit, Suthon Sae-Wong and Thaniya Kaosol. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- 3,667 Views
- 1,319 Downloads
- 0 Citations
Download
Keywords
- Depth-Bounded Discrepancy Search
- Constraints
- Objective Model
- Timetable