Operational research in education
From MaRDI portal
Publication:319179
DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2014.10.043zbMath1346.90845OpenAlexW2144732858MaRDI QIDQ319179
Publication date: 6 October 2016
Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/23101/3/OR_in_Education_revised.docx.pdf
Markov processesdata envelopment analysisoptimal control theoryscheduling and timetablingstochastic frontier analysis
Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-02)
Related Items (17)
Heuristic search to the capacitated clustering problem ⋮ Iterated maxima search for the maximally diverse grouping problem ⋮ A cellular memetic algorithm for the examination timetabling problem ⋮ Centralized allocation of human resources. An application to public schools ⋮ A three-phase search approach with dynamic population size for solving the maximally diverse grouping problem ⋮ An adaptive large neighbourhood search metaheuristic for hourly learning activity planning in personalised learning ⋮ Data-driven support for policy and decision-making in university research management: a case study from Germany ⋮ A comparative study of modern heuristics on the school timetabling problem ⋮ Managerial efficiency and efficiency differentials in adult education: a conditional and bias-corrected efficiency analysis ⋮ OR applied to humanitarian operations ⋮ A utilisation focussed and viable systems approach for evaluating technology supported learning ⋮ Comparing school ownership performance using a pseudo-panel database: a Malmquist-type index approach ⋮ Neighborhood decomposition based variable neighborhood search and tabu search for maximally diverse grouping ⋮ Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools ⋮ The balanced maximally diverse grouping problem with block constraints ⋮ Optimized planning of nursing curricula in dual vocational schools focusing on the German health care system ⋮ A new mixed-integer programming formulation for the maximally diverse grouping problem with attribute values
Uses Software
Cites Work
- Interactive Preference Optimization for University Administrators
- A Simple Heuristic to Facilitate Course Timetabling
- On the Optimal Allocation of Resources in the Production of Human Capital
- Guiding Schools to Improved Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis: An Illustration with Data from a Local Education Authority
- Data envelopment analysis and university selection
- University timetabling by constraint-based reasoning: A case study
- Timetabling for Greek high schools
- A Gentle Introduction to Memetic Algorithms
- Hyper-Heuristics: An Emerging Direction in Modern Search Technology
- The school bus routing problem: a case study
- Evaluating public school district performance via DEA gain functions
- Extended clique initialisation in examination timetabling
- Assigning pupils to tutor groups in a comprehensive school
- Using OR for diagnosis and facilitation in change programmes: a university application
- Measuring and managing educational performance
- A two-phase multiple objective approach to university timetabling utilising optimisation and evolutionary solution methodologies
- A combinatorial auction improves school meals in Chile: a case of OR in developing countries
- Mapping the structure of MBA programmes: a comparative study of the structure of accredited AMBA programmes in the United Kingdom
- Ant colony optimization for the examination scheduling problem
- A Fast, Network-based, Hybrid Heuristic for the Assignment of Students to Schools
- Resource Planning in University Management by Goal Programming
- Determining Teaching and Research Efficiencies
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Schools with Pupils of Different Ability Using Data Envelopment Analysis
- Allocation of School Bus Contracts By Integer Programming
- A portfolio model for performance assessment: the Financial Times MBA ranking
- Assessing pupil and school performance by non-parametric and parametric techniques
- Multiple-retrieval case-based reasoning for course timetabling problems
- A Database Approach to Course Timetabling
- An evaluation of the limitations of, and alternatives to, the Co-Plot methodology
- Technical efficiency, managerial efficiency and objective-setting in the educational system: an international comparison
- An upper bound for the chromatic number of a graph and its application to timetabling problems
- A Goal Programming Model for Academic Resource Allocation
- An Interactive Approach for Multi-Criterion Optimization, with an Application to the Operation of an Academic Department
- Constructing Good Solutions for the Spanish School Timetabling Problem
- On the Joint Determination of Efficiencies in a Data Envelopment Analysis Context
- Redistribution of funds for teaching and research among universities: The case of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Implementation of a university course and examination timetabling system
- Efficient assignment of financial resources within a university system. Study of the University of Malaga
- Decomposing school and school-type efficiency
- The effect of competition on the efficiency of secondary schools in England
- Unnamed Item
- Unnamed Item
- Unnamed Item
- Unnamed Item
- Unnamed Item
- Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis
- Measuring the efficiency of decision making units
- Fairness in academic course timetabling
- Effective learning hyper-heuristics for the course timetabling problem
- Network data envelopment analysis: a review
- Robust decomposable Markov decision processes motivated by allocating school budgets
- Combining the assumptions of variable and constant returns to scale in the efficiency evaluation of secondary schools
- Analysing the effects of solution space connectivity with an effective metaheuristic for the course timetabling problem
- The practice and theory of automated timetabling
- Memetic techniques for examination timetabling
- Adaptive selection of heuristics for improving exam timetables
- A survey of school timetabling research
- Solving examination timetabling problems through adaption of heuristic orderings
- A supernodal formulation of vertex colouring with applications in course timetabling
- A multiobjective framework for heavily constrained examination timetabling problems
- A mathematical model for dynamic efficiency using data envelopment analysis
- An introduction to timetabling
- Tabu search for large scale timetabling problems
- A survey of search methodologies and automated system development for examination timetabling
- Measuring teaching efficiency in higher education: an application of data envelopment analysis to economics graduates from UK universities 1993
- Case-based heuristic selection for timetabling problems
- A GRASP strategy for a more constrained school timetabling problem
- Malmquist indexes with quasi-fixed inputs: an application to school districts in Québec
- Hybrid variable neighbourhood approaches to university exam timetabling
- Efficiency analysis to incorporate interval-scale data
- A study of heuristic combinations for hyper-heuristic systems for the uncapacitated examination timetabling problem
- Efficiency and equity in private and public education: a nonparametric comparison
- A simulated annealing with a new neighborhood structure based algorithm for high school timetabling problems
- Efficiency estimation and error decomposition in the stochastic frontier model: A Monte Carlo analysis
- Econometric efficiency analysis: A policy-oriented review
- Scheduling examinations to reduce second-order conflicts
- Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production function models
- Performance assessment in higher education in Britain
- On the measurement of technical efficiency in the public sector
- The combinatorics of timetabling
- Constructing a course schedule by solving a series of assignment type problems
- A multicriteria decision-making approach to university resource allocations and information infrastructure planning
- A tabu search algorithm for computing an operational timetable
- An algorithm for the committee construction problem
- On the development of educational policies
- A robust simulated annealing based examination timetabling system.
- Using tabu search with longer-term memory and relaxation to create examination timetables.
- An automated university course timetabling system developed in a distributed environment: a case study.
- Multicriteria methodology for the evaluation of a Greek engineering department.
- Determining the relative efficiency of MBA programs using DEA
- Co-plot: A graphic display method for geometrical representations of MCDM
- Recent research directions in automated timetabling
- Monte Carlo hyper-heuristics for examination timetabling
- A harmony search algorithm for university course timetabling
- A branch-and-cut procedure for the Udine course timetabling problem
- Linear combinations of heuristics for examination timetabling
- Applying the threshold accepting metaheuristic to~curriculum based course timetabling
- A new model for automated examination timetabling
- Managing the tabu list length using a fuzzy inference system: an application to examination timetabling
- An XML format for benchmarks in high school timetabling
- Strong bounds with cut and column generation for class-teacher timetabling
- A new approach for technical efficiency estimation in multiple output production
- Constraint satisfaction problems: Algorithms and applications
- Nonparametric analysis of educational costs
- Efficiency measurement in the stochastic frontier model
- The analytic hierarchy process and multiobjective 0--1 faculty course assignment
- An annotated timeline of operations research. An informal history
- Estimating technical and allocative efficiency in the public sector: a nonparametric analysis of Dutch schools
- A decomposed metaheuristic approach for a real-world university timetabling problem
- MCS---a new algorithm for multicriteria optimisation in constraint programming
- A graph-based hyper-heuristic for educational timetabling problems
- On the performance of universities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: government's redistribution of funds judged using DEA efficiency measures
- Reputation and efficiency: A non-parametric assessment of America's top-rated MBA programs
- A survey of metaheuristic-based techniques for university timetabling problems
- Mathematical programming models and algorithms for a class--faculty assignment problem
- Strategy, performance and operational research
- Performance in primary schools
- Data envelopment analysis with missing data: an application to University libraries in Taiwan
- Nonparametric estimation of returns to scale in the public sector with an application to the provision of educational services
- An empirical comparison of heuristic methods for creating maximally diverse groups
- Student centred school timetabling
- Hybridizations within a graph-based hyper-heuristic framework for university timetabling problems
- A column generation approach for the timetabling problem of Greek high schools
- Operations Research Applications
- Resource-Use Efficiency in Public Schools: A Study of Connecticut Data
- Using a group support system to aid input–output identification in DEA
- A genetic algorithm approach to school timetabling
- Towards improving the utilization of university teaching space
- A deterministic linear optimization model for allocating schools to zones
- Solving school bus routing problems through integer programming
- A tabu-based large neighbourhood search methodology for the capacitated examination timetabling problem
- Analysis of complementary methodologies for the estimation of school value added
- Comments on the Origin and Application of Markov Decision Processes
- An Interactive MOLP Procedure for the Extension of DEA to Effectiveness Analysis
- A Lagrangean Relaxation Approach to Course Timetabling
- Simple Heuristics for the School Assignment Problem
- When Is the Classroom Assignment Problem Hard?
- An Interactive Procedure for the School Boundary Problem with Declining Enrollment
- A Note on Faculty Timetabling
- A Comprehensive Planning Model for Long-Range Academic Strategies
- Efficiency Estimation from Cobb-Douglas Production Functions with Composed Error
- A Model for Planning the Transition to Equilibrium of a University Budget
- Constrained Optimization of a University Administrator's Preference Function
This page was built for publication: Operational research in education
