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We present the progress on the benchmarking project for high school timetabling that was introduced at PATAT 2008. In particular, we announce the High School Timetabling Archive XHSTT-2011 with 21 instances from 8 countries and an evaluator capable of checking the syntax of instances and evaluating the solutions.
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Post, G., Kingston, J.H., Ahmadi, S. et al. XHSTT: an XML archive for high school timetabling problems in different countries. Ann Oper Res 218, 295–301 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-011-1012-2
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Keywords
- Timetabling
- High school
- Benchmark
- XML
- Scheduling