Journal
JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
Volume 58, Issue 11, Pages 1494-1502Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602258
Keywords
examination timetabling; large neighbourhood; improvement graph; tabu search
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Neighbourhood search algorithms are often the most effective known approaches for solving partitioning problems. In this paper, we consider the capacitated examination timetabling problem as a partitioning problem and present an examination timetabling methodology that is based upon the large neighbourhood search algorithm that was originally developed by Ahuja and Orlin. It is based on searching a very large neighbourhood of solutions using graph theoretical algorithms implemented on a so- called improvement graph. In this paper, we present a tabu- based large neighbourhood search, in which the improvement moves are kept in a tabu list for a certain number of iterations. We have drawn upon Ahuja - Orlin's methodology incorporated with tabu lists and have developed an effective examination timetabling solution scheme which we evaluated on capacitated problem benchmark data sets from the literature. The capacitated problem includes the consideration of room capacities and, as such, represents an issue that is of particular importance in real- world situations. We compare our approach against other methodologies that have appeared in the literature over recent years. Our computational experiments indicate that the approach we describe produces the best known results on a number of these benchmark problems.
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