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Educational timetabling problems, namely, university examination timetabling, university course timetabling and school timetabling, are combinatorial optimization problems requiring the allocation of resources so as to satisfy a specified set of constraints. Hyper-heuristics have been successfully applied to a variety of combinatorial optimization problems. This is a rapidly growing field which aims at providing generalized solutions to combinatorial optimization problems by exploring a heuristic space instead of a solution space. From the research conducted thus far it is evident that hyper-heuristics are effective at solving educational timetabling problems and have the potential of advancing this field by providing a generalized solution to educational timetabling as a whole. Given this, the paper provides an overview and critical analysis of hyper-heuristics for educational timetabling and proposes future research directions, focusing on using hyper-heuristics to provide a generalized solution to educational timetabling.
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Appendix 1: Performance of selection constructive hyper-heuristics: examination timetabling problem
Appendix 2: Performance of selection perturbative hyper-heuristics: examination timetabling problem
Appendix 3: Performance of generation constructive hyper-heuristics: examination timetabling problem
Appendix 4: Performance of generation perturbative hyper-heuristics: examination Timetabling problem
Appendix 5: Performance hyper-heuristics for the university course timetabling problem
Appendix 6: Performance hyper-heuristics for the school timetabling problem
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Pillay, N. A review of hyper-heuristics for educational timetabling. Ann Oper Res 239, 3–38 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-014-1688-1
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