Munirah Mazlan
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin

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University course timetabling model using ant colony optimization algorithm approach Munirah Mazlan; Mokhairi Makhtar; Ahmad Firdaus Khair Ahmad Khairi; Mohamad Afendee Mohamed
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 13, No 1: January 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v13.i1.pp72-76

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Due to the increased number of students and regulations, all educational institutions have renewed their interest to appear in the number of complexity and flexibility since the resources and events are becoming more difficult to be scheduled. Timetabling is the type of problems where the events need to be organized into a number of timeslots to prevent the conflicts in using a given set of resources. Thus in the intervening decades, significant progress has been made in the course timetabling problem monitoring with meta-heuristic adjustment. In this study, ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm approach has been developed for university course timetabling problem. ACO is believed to be a powerful solution approach for various combinatorial optimization problems. This approach is used according to the data set instances that have been collected. Its performance is presented using the appropriate algorithm. The results are arguably within the best results range from the literature. The performance assessment and results are used to determine whether they are reliable in preparing a qualifying course timetabling process.
An ant colony algorithm for universiti sultan zainal abidin examination timetabling problem Ahmad Firdaus Khair; Mokhairi Makhtar; Munirah Mazlan; Mohamad Afendee Mohamed; Mohd Nordin Abdul Rahman
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 13, No 1: January 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v13.i1.pp191-198

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The real-life construction of examination timetabling problem is considered as a common problem that always encountered and experienced in educational institution whether in school, college, and university. This problem is usually experienced by the academic management department where they have trouble to handle complexity for assign examination into a suitable timeslot manually. In this paper, an algorithm approach of ant colony optimisation (ACO) is presented to find an effective solution for dealing with Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) examination timetabling problems. A combination of heuristic with ACO algorithm contributes the development solution in order to simplify and optimize the pheromone occurrence of matrix updates which include the constraints problem. The implementation of real dataset instances from academic management is applied to the approach for generating the result of examination timetable. The result and performance that obtained will be used for further use to evaluate the quality and observe the solution whether our examination timetabling system is reliable and efficient than the manual management that can deal the constraints problem.