Chia-Lih, Bong and Sze, San Nah and Noor Alamshah, Bolhassan and Kang-Leng, Chiew (2017) Heuristic faculty course timetabling with student sectioning. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computing and Informatics, 25-27April, 2017, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia.
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Abstract
This paper studies a real faculty course timetabling problem of Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), Uni-versiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). FCSIT offers 5 four-year pro-grammes. Each programme has own set of courses but some courses are re-quired by more than one programme. List of courses for each semester of all programmes are planned and suggested by faculty as in course plan but stu-dents are free to select their own course registration. FCSIT has to come out with course timetable with no clashes before semester starts. Current curric-ulum-based timetabling method causes clashes and requires few rounds of adjustment. The aim of this study is to come out with better method than the current curriculum-based timetabling practice. A two-stage heuristic with student sectioning consideration method is proposed to solve the problem by student-based approach. A simulator is developed and tested with real da-tasets from FCSIT. It generates clash-free timetables in shorter time as ad-justment is unnecessary. Results shown that simulator solution performs bet-ter in utilise venue resources by reduced 13.1% unnecessary allocation. On top of that, the simulator is proved to be efficient in solving problem for dif-ferent semesters with changed problem size, different offering courses and different resources given.
| Item Type: | Proceeding (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | automated timetabling, two-stage heuristic, student sectioning, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology |
| Depositing User: | Saman |
| Date Deposited: | 30 May 2017 01:53 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2017 01:53 |
| URI: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16476 |
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