IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijores/v4y2009i3p323-345.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Lecture timetabling at a Tunisian university

Author

Listed:
  • Abdelaziz Dammak
  • Abdelkarim Elloumi
  • Hichem Kamoun

Abstract

This paper deals with the lecture timetabling problem at an institution in a Tunisian university. The objective is to construct a feasible timetable for all the lectures taken by the students sections in the institution. For this, we give a formulation of the problem as a set of linear constraints. Then we develop a heuristic procedure that starts by assigning student sections having the biggest size to classrooms with the smallest capacity that can fit the students. This heuristic is illustrated with real data of one section at the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences of Sfax (FEMSS) in Tunisia. In addition, it is fully implemented to solve the lecture timetabling problem for all the students sections in the same faculty.

Suggested Citation

  • Abdelaziz Dammak & Abdelkarim Elloumi & Hichem Kamoun, 2009. "Lecture timetabling at a Tunisian university," International Journal of Operational Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(3), pages 323-345.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:4:y:2009:i:3:p:323-345
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=23287
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:4:y:2009:i:3:p:323-345. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=170 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.