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Educational Timetabling: Problems, Benchmarks, and State-of-the-Art Results
Sara Ceschia, Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Schaerf
We propose a survey of the research contributions on the field of Educational Timetabling with a specific focus on "standard" formulations and the corresponding benchmark instances…
Second International Nurse Rostering Competition (INRC-II) --- Problem Description and Rules ---
Sara Ceschia, Nguyen Thi Thanh Dang, Patrick De Causmaecker +2
In this paper, we provide all information to participate to the Second International Nurse Rostering Competition (INRC-II). First, we describe the problem formulation, which, diffe…
Feature-based tuning of simulated annealing applied to the curriculum-based course timetabling problem
Ruggero Bellio, Sara Ceschia, Luca Di Gaspero +2
We consider the university course timetabling problem, which is one of the most studied problems in educational timetabling. In particular, we focus our attention on the formulatio…
Design, Engineering, and Experimental Analysis of a Simulated Annealing Approach to the Post-Enrolment Course Timetabling Problem
Sara Ceschia, Luca Di Gaspero, Andrea Schaerf
The post-enrolment course timetabling (PE-CTT) is one of the most studied timetabling problems, for which many instances and results are available. In this work we design a metaheu…
Local Search Techniques for Constrained Portfolio Selection Problems
Andrea Schaerf
We consider the problem of selecting a portfolio of assets that provides the investor a suitable balance of expected return and risk. With respect to the seminal mean-variance mode…
Programming in Alma-0, or Imperative and Declarative Programming Reconciled
Krzysztof R. Apt, Andrea Schaerf
In (Apt et al, TOPLAS 1998) we introduced the imperative programming language Alma-0 that supports declarative programming. In this paper we illustrate the hybrid programming style…