This paper presents an investigation of a simple generic hyper-heuristic approach upon a
set of widely used constructive heuristics (graph coloring heuristics) in timetabling. Within the …

Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that are motivated (at least in part) by the goal
of automating the design of heuristic methods to solve hard computational search problems…

The Second International Timetabling Competition (TTC2007) opened in August 2007.
Building on the success of the first competition in 2002, this sequel aimed to further develop …

Examination timetabling is one of the most important administrative activities that takes place
in all academic institutions. In this paper, we present a critical discussion of the research on …

This paper presents a case-based heuristic selection approach for automated university
course and exam timetabling. The method described in this paper is motivated by the goal of …

In the context of workforce scheduling, there are many scenarios in which personnel must
carry out tasks at different locations hence requiring some form of transportation. Examples of …

Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision,
which has been widely applied in people’s life, such as monitoring security, autonomous …

Since December 2019, novel coronavirus infected pneumonia emerged in Wuhan city and
rapidly spread throughout China. In severe novel coronavirus pneumonia cases, the number …

Background—Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is markedly elevated in advanced heart
failure. It is not known whether tissue TNF-α is elevated in the common setting of myocardial …

This article proposes an efficient federated distillation learning system (EFDLS) for multitask
time series classification (TSC). EFDLS consists of a central server and multiple mobile users…