Morales Fajardo, Bayron

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Modelando y resolviendo el problema de programación de cursos universitarios en la UPRM
(2019-12-10) Morales Fajardo, Bayron; Vásquez Urbano, Pedro; College of Arts and Sciences - Sciences; Ferrer, Mercedes; Lorenzo, Edgardo; Department of Mathematics; Alers Valentín, Hilton
This thesis studies the course timetabling problem at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. Sets of courses, professors, classrooms and a projected class-demand for students are considered. The objective is to prepare a schedule of courses to be offered in a semester attending the total preferences of professors regarding courses and timeslots and minimizing the amount of credits of the sections that cannot be assigned because the course-load of the professors has already been completed. The problem is formulated as a search problem and then a sequence of procedures is proposed to process the input information, represent the candidate solutions and start the search based on Genetic Algorithm. The parameters of the algorithm were adjusted as different cases of the model were run and the results showed that under certain choices of these parameters, the algorithm behaves reasonably well and serves the proposed objective.