DURATION-DEPENDENT MULTI-SCHEDULE EVOLUTIONARY CURRICULUM TIMETABLING

Educational institutions are usually involved in planning timetables for examination and curriculum. Of the two, the latter is usually more complex. It is typical that institutions are usually faced with a set of unique requirements. Each curriculum timetable consists of several components and they tend to differ significantly among institutions. The curriculum timetable of the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which has five components, is no exception. Each of the components can be planned separately as an individual schedule. Each of these schedules constitutes a species and co-evolved together to obtain the optimum timetable. Multi-schedule evolution has been found to be effective in finding a feasible optimum curriculum timetable in the case of EEE, NTU.