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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.10.580

Mathematical modeling approach for classroom assignment problem  

Ahn, Namsu (Department of Machinery and System Engineering, Korea Military Academy)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.10, 2017 , pp. 580-587 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, as the education population of Korea has been rapidly declining, many changes have been taking place in the university environment. Especially, community colleges linked to local communities have responded to these crises through various educational changes, such as three-year study transfers, work-parallelism, and employee commissioned education. However, such changes in the contents of education are causing a new type of classroom allocation problem, in which it is difficult to assign the limited number of classrooms to the major courses. In this paper, we classified the constraints involved in assigning classrooms into absolute constraints and relative constraints, mathematically modeled them, and allocated the classrooms optimally through optimization software. The results were satisfactory and enabled us to obtain superior results in terms of the various performance indices (classroom utilization rate, teacher satisfaction, etc.) than when assigning classrooms in the normal way.
Keywords
Classroom Assignment; Community College Education; Integer Programming; Optimization; Time Schedule Assignment;
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