Modelling and Solving Generic Educational Timetabling Problems.

建模和解决一般教育时间表问题。

• 批准号: 2438701
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2438701
• 关键词: Modelling; Solving; Generic; Educational; Timetabling

Universities have a large number of students enrolled on many different programs of study. They also employ lots of staff to facilitate the teaching of these courses. Ultimately, an individual event, such as a lecture or a workshop, needs to occur in a particular space at a particular time. This assignment is represented as a timetable and the aim is to produce a timetable that everyone is happy with. Two questions arise from this description: How do you quantify how good a timetable is and how do you produce a timetable that is good? The novel work within this research will be to manage how people move around campus and use physical space efficiently as well as consider "virtual" online spaces which are becoming more popular. This will be done by mathematically forming the problem and researching methods that can be used to solve it. A broader research question is to ask if this work can be used to guide strategic decision making. A strategic decision is one that changes the long-term operation of an organisation. The aim is to establish a firm relationship between the timetabling problem and the strategic decisions that universities have to make.In partnership with MIT.

大学有大量的学生参加许多不同的学习项目。他们还聘请了大量工作人员来促进这些课程的教学。最终，个别事件，如讲座或研讨会，需要在特定的时间在特定的空间发生。这项任务被表示为一个时间表，目的是产生一个每个人都满意的时间表。从这个描述中产生了两个问题：如何量化时间表有多好，以及如何制定一个好的时间表？这项研究中的新奇工作将是管理人们如何在校园内走动，如何有效地利用物理空间，以及考虑正在变得越来越受欢迎的“虚拟”在线空间。这将通过数学形成问题和可以用来解决它的研究方法来完成。一个更广泛的研究问题是，这项工作是否可以用来指导战略决策。战略决策是改变一个组织的长期运作的决策。其目的是与麻省理工学院合作，在时间表问题和大学必须做出的战略决策之间建立牢固的关系。