Informatics Colloquium 13. 11. University course timetabling and International Timetabling . . .
Informatics Colloquium 13. 11. 2018, 14:00 lecture hall D2
doc. Mgr. Hana Rudová, Ph.D., FI MU
University course timetabling and International Timetabling Competition 2019
Abstract: University course timetabling belongs to classical problems which have
been studied for many years by many researchers. This talk will outline existing
research and emphasize new research directions and challenges in this area. It
is clear that the organization of international competitions has the high impact
on the timetabling research. We intend to discuss the organization of the new
International Timetabling Competition (ITC 2019, https://www.itc2019.org) with
the aim to motivate further research on complex university course timetabling
problems coming from practice. Our goal is the creation of rich real-world data
sets. Thanks to the UniTime timetabling system, we can collect a strong set of
data with diverse characteristics which we will discuss in the talk. The key
novelty lies in the combination of student sectioning together with standard
time and room assignment of events in courses.