swarm intelligence for educational timetabling

Swarm Intelligence for  educational timetabling is research project started in 2016 by group of researchers in Sudan, coordinated by Omer ElhagMusa.

The project conducted number of ongoing researches started with a Systematic literature review on SI techniques and their uses in educational timetabling problem. .

The research has a number of contributions: Taxonomy classification to the educational timetabling problem, and a database of more than 200 references concerned with the domain of research.

Educational timetabling problems regardless of their classification are complex combinatorial problems that face many educational institutions. These problems require the satisfaction of a set of constraints to attain an efficient solution in the matter of resources and time consumption. Swarm intelligence techniques have been successfully applied to solve educational timetabling problems. In this project, the swarm intelligence solutions for solving educational timetabling problems are investigated and critically discussed. The report reports the implementation and results of a systematic literature review (SLR) used to collect and highlight scientific literature on swarm intelligence for educational timetabling problems. The research presents in detail the problem of educational timetabling and its variances. In addition, datasets and standard benchmark instances used in educational timetabling experiments are also highlighted. Moreover, a new taxonomy and classification concerned with educational timetabling problems, swarm intelligence solutions, and common issues in educational timetabling is developed as a research contribution in the project.

Research method

A systematic literature review (SLR), or systematic review, differs from traditional reviews in that it is a form of literature review that collects and looks at multiple studies. It is a way of extracting useful information from a large number of different studies and databases so as to contribute and provide answers to a precise research question related to the study field. Systematic literature review (SLR) is a popular method for scientific research used since early nineties especially in medical fields.