IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 3, No 1: March 2014

A Fast Genetic Algorithm for Solving University Scheduling Problem

Mortaza Abbaszadeh (Ilkhchi Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilkhchi, Iran.)
Saeed Saeedvand (Young Researchers Club, Ilkhchi Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilkhchi, Iran)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Mar 2014

Abstract

University course timetabling is a NP-hard problem which is very difficult to solve by conventional methods, we know scheduling problem is one of the Nondeterministic Polynomial (NP) problems. This means, solving NP problems through normal algorithm is a time-consuming process (it takes days or months with available equipment) which makes it impossible to be solved through a normal algorithm like this. In purposed algorithm the problem of university class scheduling is solved through a new chromosome structure and modifying the normal genetic methods which really improves the solution in this case. We include lecturer, class and course information in presented algorithm, with all their Constraints, and it creates optimized scheduling table for weekly program of university after creating primary population of chromosomes and running genetic operators. In the final part of this paper we conclude from the results of input data analysis that the results have high efficiency compared with other algorithms considering maximum Constraints.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...