Resource Estimation for Optimized Allocation of Course Timetabling

Abstract

This paper discuss on the resource allocation for course timetabling problem in academic institution. In current practice, open resources system is used whereby the resources are manage by the resource manager. The resource manager will schedule the timetable based on the course offering into any of the resources regardless of which faculties the courses belong to in order to efficiently utilize the resources. However these methods yield some disadvantage such as large search space and this resulting in increase of the time taken for course timetabling generation and large amount of student movement. Therefore, this paper proposes a mechanism to limit the search space by specifically assign the resources required for each faculty based on the course offered. This paper provides a description and formulation of the resource allocation for course timetabling problem. Preliminary results show that, the method able to estimate the resource required by the faculty based on the course offered. This paper provides a formulation of the resource estimation problem. Apart from that, the formulation could also be used to forecast or estimate the resources required for future expansion of the Faculty or University.