Recent Papers

• A List of Survey/Overview/Discussion Papers in Educational Timetabling and General Timetabling Resources (Feb 2008)
  
  
• A List of Recent Papers in Nurse Rostering (Feb 2007)
  
  
• Full list of papers and Selected papers in the proceedings of the PATAT 2006 conference.
  
  
• Full list of papers and Selected papers in the proceedings of the PATAT 2004 conference.
  
  
• Abdullah, S., Ahmadi S., Burke, E.K., Dror, M. and McCollum, B. A Tabu based Large Neighbourhood Search Methodology for the Capacitated Examination Timetabling Problem. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Operational Research Society, 2008.
  
  
• Asmuni H., Burke E., Garibaldi J., McCollum B., and Parkes A.J. An investigation of fuzzy multiple heuristic orderings in the construction of university examination timetables. to appear in Computers and Operations Research, 2008.
  
  
• Burke E., Curtois T., Post G., Qu R. and Veltman B. A Hybrid Heuristic Ordering and Variable Neighbourhood Search for the Nurse Rostering Problem. European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), 2: 330-341, 2008.
  
  
• De Causmaecker P., Demeester P. and Vanden Berghe G. A decomposed metaheuristic approach for a real-world university timetabling problem. to appear at European Journal of Operational Research, 2008
  
  
• Grigorios N. Beligiannis, Charalampos N. Moschopoulos, Georgios P. Kaperonis and Spiridon D. Likothanassis Applying evolutionary computation to the school timetabling problem: The Greek case. Computers & Operations Research, 35(4), pp 1265-1280, 2008.
  
  
• M. Marte. Towards Constraint-Based School Timetabling. Special Issue on Personnel Scheduling and Planning at Annals of Operations Research, 155(1):207-225, 2007. (An earlier version was published in Proceedings of the Workshop on Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints, held in conjunction with ECAI, 2004.)
  
  
• Petrovic S., Yang Y. and Dror M.Case-based selection of initialisation heuristics for metaheuristic examination timetabling. Expert Systems with Applications, 33(3), 772-785, 2007.
  
  
• Purnomo H.W. and Bard J.F. Cyclic preference scheduling for nurses using branch and price. Naval Research Logistics, 54 (2): 200-220, 2007.
  
  
• Qu R, Burke E., McCollum B. Merlot L.T.G. and Lee S.Y. A Survey of Search Methodologies and Automated Approaches for Examination Timetabling, To appear at Journal of Scheduling, 2008.
  
  
• Abdullah, S., Ahmadi, S., Burke, E.K. and Dror, M., Investigating Ahuja-Orlin's Large Neighbourhood Search Approach for Examination Timetabling. OR Spectrum, 29(2): 351- 372, 2007.
  
  
• Al-Yakoob S.M. and Sherali H.D. A mixed-integer programming approach to a class timetabling problem: A case study with gender policies and traffic considerations European Journal of Operational Research, 180(3): 1028-1044, 2007.
  
  
• Beddoe G. and Petrovic, S. Enhancing case-based reasoning for personnel rostering with selected tabu search concepts. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58(12), pp 1586-1598, 2007.
  
  
• Burke, E.K., McCollum, B., Meisels, A., Petrovic, S. and Qu, R., A Graph-Based Hyper Heuristic for Educational Timetabling Problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 176(1): 177-192, 2007.
  
  
• Pongcharoen P., Promtet W., Yenradee P. and Hicks C. Stochastic Optimisation Timetabling Tool for university course scheduling. International Journal of Production Economics, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 September 2007.
  
  
• Abdullah, S., Burke, E.K. & McCollum, B. Using a Randomised Iterative Improvement Algorithm with Composite Neighbourhood Structures for the University Course Timetabling Problem. In Computer Science Interfaces Book Series (Eds. Doerner, K.F., Gendreau, M., Greistorfer, P., Gutjahr, W.J., Hartl, R.F. & Reimann, M.), Springer Operations Research, 2006.
  
  
• Al-Yakoob S. and Sherali H. Mathematical programming models and algorithms for a class-faculty assignment problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 173(2): 488-507, 2006.
  
  
• Boland N, Hughes BD, Merlot LTG and Stuckey PJ. New integer linear programming approaches for course timetabling. Computers & Operations Research, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 December 2006.
  
  
• Head C. and Shaban S. A heuristic approach to simultaneous course/student timetabling Computers & Operations Research, 34(4): 919-933, 2007.
  
  
• Al-Yakoob S.M. and Sherali H.D. Mathematical programming models and algorithms for a class-faculty assignment problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 173(2): 488-507, 2006.
  
  
• Beddoe G., and Petrovic, S., Selecting and weighting features using a genetic algorithm in a case-based reasoning approach to personnel rostering. European Journal of Operational Research, 175: 649-671, 2006.
  
  
• Burke, E. K. De Causmaecker, P, Petrovic, S. Vanden Berghe G., Metaheuristics for handling Time Interval Coverage Constraints in Nurse Scheduling. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 20(9): 743-766, 2006.
  
  
• Burke, E.K., MacCarthy, B., Petrovic, S. and Qu, R. Multiple-Retrieval Case Based Reasoning for Course Timetabling Problems. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 57(2), pp 148-162, 2006
  
  
• Burke, E.K., Petrovic, S. and Qu, R. Case Based Heuristic Selection for Timetabling Problems. Journal of Scheduling, 9(2): 115-132, 2006
  
  
• Chiarandini M., Birattari M., Socha K., Rossi-Doria O. An effective hybrid algorithm for university course timetabling. Journal of Scheduling, 9(5), pp 403-432, 2006
  
  
• Dammak A., Elloumi A. and Kamoun H. Classroom assignment for exam timetabling. Advances in Engineering Software, 37(10): 659-666, 2006.
  
  
• Li, J. and Aickelin, U. Bayesian Optimization Algorithm for Nurse Scheduling. In Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling: From Algorithms to Applications (Eds. Pelican, M., Sastry, K. & Cantu-Paz, E.), pp. 315-332, Springer, 2006.
  
  
• MirHassani S.A. Improving paper spread in examination timetables using integer programming Applied Mathematics and Computation, 179(2): 702-706, 2006.
  
  
• MirHassani S.A. A computational approach to enhancing course timetabling with integer programming. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 175(1): 814-822, 2006.
  
  

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