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- Provides an overview of course timetabling problems and their combinatorial properties
- Presents a rigorous treatment of fairness aspects
- Showcases a detailed case study on the implementation of a real-world timetabling system
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 678)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This monograph deals with theoretical and practical aspects of creating course timetables at academic institutions. The task is typically to create a timetable that suits the requirements of the stakeholders – students, lecturers, and the administration – as well as possible. The book presents an exposition of the basic combinatorial problems and solution methods for course timetabling and related tasks. It provides a rigorous treatment of fairness issues that arise in the course timetabling context and shows how to deal with the potentially conflicting interests of the stakeholders. The proposed methods are also readily applicable to other classes of scheduling problems such as staff rostering. Finally, it presents a comprehensive case study on the implementation of an automated course timetabling system at the school of engineering of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The case study includes a detailed description of the problem model as well as an evaluation of stakeholder satisfaction.
Authors and Affiliations
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Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Moritz Mühlenthaler
About the author
Moritz Mühlenthaler holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide and a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He was a doctoral student at the Efficient Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization group at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and finished his Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) in 2014. His research interests include graph-theoretic concepts in computer science in general, and timetabling and scheduling problems in particular.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fairness in Academic Course Timetabling
Authors: Moritz Mühlenthaler
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12799-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12798-9Published: 27 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12799-6Published: 16 January 2015
Series ISSN: 0075-8442
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 147
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science, Discrete Optimization, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing, Administration, Organization and Leadership